Our Own Quotes

#1. Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.

Anthea Syrokou

#2. If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#4. We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

James E. Faust

#5. We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

Paulo Coelho

#6. How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation.

Glenn L. Pace

#7. Religion will not get us where we need to go. It just goes so far, and then we're on our own toward the open space where there are no religious practices or beliefs.

Art Hochberg

#8. Life is full of chances
and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.

Victoria Laurie

#9. Why do people think that we're degraded when we're examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Chris Kraus

#10. Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.

Francine Rivers

#11. Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Isaac Watts

#12. We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#13. If we lean on a human love story as our primary source of fulfillment and happiness, well never find what we are looking for. But when we find our fulfillment in Jesus Christ, we are free to selflessly love our spouse instead of constantly thinking about our own needs and wants

Eric & Leslie Ludy

#14. How we are born to invent our own miseries!

Sophia Lee

#15. Implementing good relationship habits consistently over time elicits good relationships which in turn feed our thoughts about our own self-worth and capabilities.

Sam Owen

#16. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.

DeiAmor Verus

#17. Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

George Eliot

#18. Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

Pamela Sargent

#19. People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

Don DeLillo

#20. I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.

Alice Englert

#21. Each of us is born into our own mysteries ... but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Alexander McCall Smith

#22. Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

Leonard Read

#23. How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.

Stefanie Schneider

#24. Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

Mia Farrow

#25. The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

Sean Hannity

#26. For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

Sheri L. Dew

#27. I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Rick Perlstein

#28. The internal, and eternal, struggle, between our base impulses and the rigorous demands of our own moral system is quintessentially human. It is how we conduct ourselves in that struggle that determines how we may in time be judged by a higher power.

Neal Stephenson

#29. Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come.

Billy Graham

#30. We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

Henry Ward Beecher

#31. You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

Sam Harris

#32. When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface ... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.

Richard Louv

#33. You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - (sighs deeply). Oh, fuck it.

-M. Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Wes Anderson

#34. Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

Sri Aurobindo

#35. of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent nonpsalmic "worship" based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who,

N. T. Wright

#36. Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing them into our own preferred ideas and gestalts...

Irvin D. Yalom

#37. We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.

Marion Dane Bauer

#38. Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse
a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Charles Caleb Colton

#39. At Nature's Kitchen we take pride in saying that we wouldn't serve anything to your children that we wouldn't feed to our own children.

Brenda Peterson

#40. To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

Piero Ferrucci

#41. If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then knowledge includes nothing which is not due to the effort of man, and there is nothing gratuitous about it, nothing "inspired", nothing "given" about it.

Josef Pieper

#42. But who am I to judge? We're all fighting our own battles, the best way we can.

Richelle Mead

#43. I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Julianna Baggott

#44. We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#45. What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Martin Luther

#46. We fought injustice wherever we found it, no matter how large, or how small, and we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity.

Nelson Mandela

#47. Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

Lindsey Graham

#48. What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.

Catherine Bybee

#49. Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Desiderius Erasmus

#50. If God refuses to mass-produce but insists on an intimate process that in the end forms each of us into the image of Christ, why would we choose a lesser path for our own lives? The work of the artist begins with the care of his or her own soul.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#51. Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental.

Charles F. Glassman

#52. While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.

Matt Litton

#53. We usually judge people by our own reactions fears, and desires. We do not see them as separate people . . . but as part of ourselves and our lives. We attribute to them motives which we would have in the same circumstances.

Caryll Houselander

#54. By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#55. As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

Stephen Covey

#56. The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

Walter Brueggemann

#57. Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.

Omar Suleiman

#58. Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

Don Cupitt

#59. If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

Yehuda Berg

#60. We killed our own hogs, we killed our own beef, we raised our own vegetables, which Mama canned. We did live off the land.

Si Robertson

#61. We are all misfits in our own unique way; therefore, each person is perfect in their own uniqueness

Paul S. Anderson

#62. A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

Anna Godbersen

#63. We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.

Anneli Rufus

#64. Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.
In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

Rick Remender

#65. Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.

George MacDonald

#66. Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

Eugene H. Peterson

#67. we can form an objective judgment of the nation, race, or continent to which we belong only when we have lived for a time in a foreign country and so are able to look at our own country from without. How,

C. G. Jung

#68. The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

Nathaniel Branden

#69. If we don't heal our own hood, who will?

Nelly

#70. Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own, in order to investigate by way of pleasurable thought-experiments how things might be done differently.

Brian Stableford

#71. Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.

Raymond Radiguet

#72. The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

Erich Fromm

#73. We can only accept teachings that we have put into practice with our own awakened understanding and that we can see with our own experience to be true.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#74. On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#75. A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.

Barbara Demick

#76. If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means "Our Own Self" did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.

Dada Bhagwan

#77. I believed we could know what was happening to us. We were not excluded from our own lives. That is not my head on someone else's body in the photograph that's introduced as evidence. I didn't believe that nations play-act on a grand scale. I lived in the real.

Don DeLillo

#78. I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#79. We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!

Alexander Lukashenko

#80. We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor

Samuel Johnson

#81. We may not be responsible for another's addiction or the life history that preceded it, but many painful situations could be avoided if we recognized that we are responsible for the way we ourselves enter into the interaction. And that, to put it most simply, means dealing with our own stuff.

Gabor Mate

#82. Subtle or bold, The Weird acknowledges that our search for understanding about worlds beyond our own cannot always be found in science or religion and thus becomes an alternative path for exploration of the numinous.

Jeff VanderMeer

#83. Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Stanley Hauerwas

#84. In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt

#85. You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.

Ava Dellaira

#86. Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#87. We do not choose the one we fall in love with, and our perception of happiness is our own and is determined by what we experience ...

Julie Maroh

#88. There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

Clark Gregg

#89. The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

Raymond Williams

#90. One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well.

Rostam Batmanglij

#91. Each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.

David Levithan

#92. Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

Richard Rohr

#93. With certain kinds of people,we allow for the potential development of all the beauties of human virtue within a faith that is different from our own

Victor Hugo

#94. I think we draw people into our lives ... It's as though we broadcast our deepest needs ... For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.

Lisa Unger

#95. Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.

Judith Viorst

#96. When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.

David E. Hoffman

#97. Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.

Aleister Crowley

#98. We were all of us like the proverbial ships that pass in the night, signaling only briefly to one another before sailing off over the horizon into our own patch of darkness.

Alan Bradley

#99. We appear to be saying something very important about
something: and actually we are only saying something about our own feelings.

C.S. Lewis

#100. The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

Lynda Barry