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Ourselves Quotes (page 18)

Thomas Merton quote: "Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him."
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. Thomas Merton
Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to bring them into intimate relation with ourselves. Marcel Proust
But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich. Ernest Hemingway
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. And even of the books we decide to read, there are almost always large portions which do not concern us, and which we are sure to forget the day after we have read them. The art is to skip all that does not concern us, while missing nothing that we really need. No external guidance can teach us this; for nobody but... Philip Gilbert Hamerton
<...> [Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: "It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again... We are the bees of the invisible... [Our work is] the continual conversion of the beloved visible and tangible world into the invisible vibrations and agitation of our own nature. Diane Ackerman
Richard Bach quote: "The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to..."
The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves. Richard Bach
William Shakespeare quote: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves,..."
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. William Shakespeare
Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there---days when we were younger and fresher than we are now. Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become. Jeanette Winterson
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Philip Larkin quote: "One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know..."
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves. Philip Larkin
If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ellen DeGeneres quote: "It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves."
It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves. Ellen DeGeneres
So you and I are to be left to shift by ourselves, with this poor sick child; and not a creature coming near us all the evening! I knew how it would be. This is always my luck. If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it, and Charles is as bad as any of them. Jane Austen
Jodi Picoult quote: "but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of..."
but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all. Jodi Picoult

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