Ourselves Quotes

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.

~ Catherine Lacey

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was – but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before – and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would hold his, and clenched it so tight his knuckles turned white! He kept fading out as we carried him on the stretcher board the medics brought with them. Looking back, I think he tried to warn us, poor bastard. He tried to tell us to leave him behind and go, but we wouldn’t listen. We thought we were better than the Corsairs, remember? We thought we would be all moral and upright and try to help him. ‘Don’t say I didn’t warn you.’ were the last words he said before losing consciousness. At least, those that we could make out. At the end of it all, he was right – as it turned out, we couldn’t even help ourselves.

~ Christina Engela

When we practice self-compassion in our lives, we are compelled to be more understanding and accepting toward ourselves.

~ Jose Incer

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -Socrates

~ Socrates

We dress ourselves up in lies,So that the nakedness of truth doesn't come out.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.

~ Andrew Kendall

I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.

~ Deirdre Madden

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

~ Craig Groeschel

He concluded in the last scene that we are given two choices in life. We can allow ourselves to love and care for others, which makes us vulnerable to their sickness, death, or rejection. Or we can protect ourselves by refusing to love. Lewis decided that it is better to feel and to suffer than to go through life isolated, insulated, and lonely.

~ James C. Dobson

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

~ Craig Groeschel

Isn't unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?

~ Christina Engela

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

~ C.s. Lewis

In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.

~ Cortney S. Warren

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

~ Sunday Adelaja

For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need

~ Sunday Adelaja

Many of us are destined to be alone, while most of us sentence ourselves to it.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.

~ Cortney S. Warren

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

~ Layne Staley

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

~ Cortney S. Warren

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves

~ Sunday Adelaja

We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, until we learn more...

~ Jay Woodman

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.

~ Cortney S. Warren

When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course.

~ Cortney S. Warren

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

~ Alain De Botton

Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

~ Beth Fantaskey

When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I think the purpose of life is to know who we are to ourselves and others, to know where we are in terms of time and place, and to do what we can to stay alive. what happens thereafter is the purpose of death.

~ Pfano Percy Rathogwa

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.

~ Cortney S. Warren

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Just we know what we want. Just we can discover our anticipation. Just we can understand ourselves. so find yourself. Invest time on finding yourself rather than investing enrgy recklessly on the undesirable people. Consequently disappointment will lessen and happiness will belimp.

~ Shivangi Lavaniya

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

~ Craig Groeschel

We can't know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we're not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

~ Christiane Amanpour

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

~ Blaise Pascal

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

~ Madame De Stael

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

~ George Foreman