Ourselves In Quotes

#1. God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

Vincent Van Gogh

#2. A secret between two friends, Mae, is an ocean. It's wide and deep and we lose ourselves in it.

Dave Eggers

#3. We all reach a point as young adults when we wonder what we should be doing with our lives - or, at the very least, which direction to point ourselves in. Beyond the means to get by, we need to think about what's most important to us. Not surprisingly, I discovered that for me the answer was family.

Saroo Brierley

#4. For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

Jaggi Vasudev

#5. There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

Erich Fromm

#6. To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. Similarly, the idea of putting pressure on ourselves to strive for our goals now so that we can feel the rush of reaching them later is as bizarre and misguided a life strategy as hitting ourselves in the face because it fells good when we stop.

Michael Neill

#8. When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

Daniel J. Siegel

#9. Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.

Karen Maezen Miller

#10. And if we all did what we should, we would wake to find ourselves in paradise

Deborah Harkness

#11. The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#12. Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away.

Lewis Pugh

#13. Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us to f ind true happiness, we have to immerse ourselves in its beauty.

Abdul Milazi

#14. Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

Paul Ryan

#15. So many of us have not attended to the deeper issues in ourselves; in our minds, our hearts, and in our external manifestations that keep love at bay. We instead concentrate on making a list of what we're looking for in another person.

Marianne Williamson

#16. How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. We do not read the Bible somewhere off by ourselves in a corner; we read it as a community of faith, together with the whole church in all times and places.

Michael S. Horton

#18. We've been able to handle any team that you guys put in front of us. We've had confidence since day one ... We feel like any team we play against, we've got what it takes to put ourselves in a position to win.

Tristan Thompson

#19. Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.

Guo Xiang

#20. We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#21. We define ourselves in relationship to Christ: who we are is how we relate to him. The Son, sent by the Father, lives in us through the Holy Spirit, and we can't truly meet ourselves until we meet him.

Adam S. McHugh

#22. I found it fascinating that there could be so many realities. There was the truth, which was the world we lived. There was also the worlds we would create for ourselves in our minds. In truth, there are countless universes and realities hiding within all of mankind.

Melissa C. Water

#23. Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.

John Milbank

#24. Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

Otis Williams

#25. We go through life in our little boxes until we find ourselves in the last one, buried in the ground.

Robert J. Crane

#26. We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.

William Carey

#27. When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.

Dean Koontz

#28. Loneliness is simply the felt experience of our "Obediential Potency." In our loneliness, "in the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable,"18 we experience our nature, learn the reason why God had made us, and are pushed out of ourselves in order to move toward that end.

Ronald Rolheiser

#29. The choice to love is a choice to connect
to find ourselves in the other.

Bell Hooks

#30. We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#31. Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other ... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

Mark Nepo

#32. After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

Steve Toltz

#33. The time we spend talking about Jiu Jitsu is time not spent practicing Jiu Jitsu. This is a necessary aspect of study, but it is one we mustn't lose ourselves in; we learn best by doing.

Chris Matakas

#34. We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

Jessica Zafra

#35. We are all rich in mind, we just have to exert a little more pressure to ourselves in order to expose our wealthiness to the outside world

Mojela Malelu

#36. It is now time to change our ways, so we may learn how to help ourselves in order to help others in a much more relaxed and positive way.

Gary Markwick

#37. With God it's not about beholding life, but being held ourselves in the act of beholding it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.
PERFORMANCE

Richard Avedon

#39. As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.

Barack Obama

#40. American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Burrough

#41. Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#42. So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#43. When we invest ourselves in deep personal relationships, we take a risk. We could always get hurt. The more we expose ourselves, the greater the potential for pain. No one can hurt us like someone we've trusted with our heart. No one.

Dave Earley

#44. It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Erich Fromm

#45. I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

Richard Gere

#46. My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

Kenneth Langone

#47. But there is a beauty even in loving without response because that kind of love is truly selfless. When we love with no expectation or promise of reciprocity, we know what it means to sacrifice and deny ourselves in ways we wouldn't otherwise.

Matt Chandler

#48. I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.

George Carlin

#49. We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#50. When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression of any kind.

Julia A. Boyd

#51. I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.

Grace Lee Boggs

#52. Love requires learning to love ourselves in the mirror, and learning to look other people in the eye. Buddhism, in turn, asks us to pause and look at even the subtlest causal connections and take our appreciation of them to greater depths.

Ethan Nichtern

#53. ...we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.

Jeffrey J. Kripal

#54. For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#55. Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

William Blake

#56. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#57. Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

#58. For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.

Queen Elizabeth II

#59. Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Michel De Montaigne

#60. We constantly fight an unseen enemy. God has assured us the victory, but He has told us to take an aggressive stand against the evil one, covering ourselves in His armor. We're going to win, but victory is going to take blood, sweat, and tears - His blood, our sweat, and tears from us both.

Beth Moore

#61. My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

Andre Dubus

#62. But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

Daniel Goleman

#63. We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

Catherine Of Genoa

#64. Brothers didn't make life easier, not even the jinxed sort of life we'd found ourselves in, I decided. They were tailored by evolution to be annoying.

Caitlin Kittredge

#65. Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#66. I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933. We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do. Now I say, let the inspection process take its course.

David Clennon

#67. I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Conor Oberst

#68. The only thing separating us from that existence rather than the one we find ourselves in is one small decision. I make wrong decisions every day.

Elizabeth Finn

#69. When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

James Clerk Maxwell

#71. You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.

George C. Marshall

#72. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James C. Collins

#73. The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order, to know what is the world order in contradistinction to the wishful-thinking orders which we seek to impose on one another.

Henry Miller

#74. Maybe we're all out there, floating by ourselves in some big black void. But we build connections, you know? We build our own worlds with the people we love.

Hank Moody

#75. I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#76. All our lives we measure ourselves based on our height, but during a crisis we should measure ourselves in-depth.

Celso Cukierkorn

#77. When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

Richard Branson

#78. It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.

Paul Goodman

#79. But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.

Thomas Merton

#80. No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

Jack Kornfield

#81. Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

Fred Rogers

#82. All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Czeslaw Milosz

#83. The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.

Tony Buzan

#84. Honestly, I think there's a cycle to the popularity of fantasy and fairytales that usually coincides with times of unrest or hardship in our own world. By retelling these legends or immersing ourselves in fantasy realms, we can safely explore the very real, very day-to-day darkness of our own lives.

Sarah J. Maas

#85. When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

Nido R. Qubein

#86. There isn't any one big test or way to validate ourselves in the world. There's just a long, quiet process of finding our place in it

Cammie McGovern

#87. These are the insidious monsters in our heads making us do ourselves in.

Chris Shelton

#88. To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute

Michael Loceff

#89. What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Bertrand Piccard

#90. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.

Muriel Barbery

#91. We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment ... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

Francois Hollande

#92. We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Mignon McLaughlin

#93. Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

Jeffrey Fry

#94. It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies.

Anne Lamott

#95. We wrapped ourselves in towels and went back in, eating sandwiches on the bed while Kaidan made fun of the pop love ballads on Marna's playlist. Funny how he knew the words to so many of them.

Wendy Higgins

#96. In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? In what grade do we stop believing, period?

Chris Colfer

#97. We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

Jim Morrison

#98. When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Leo Buscaglia

#99. Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!

Clemence Poesy

#100. If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.

Lisa Wingate