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Ourselves Quotes (page 22)

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. William James
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. Mitch Albom
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions? perhaps so that we could believe in them. Miguel de Unamuno
We take our bearings from the wrong landmark, wish that when young we had studied the stars - name the flowers for ourselves and the deserts after others. When the territory is charted, its eventual aspect may be quite other than what was hoped for. One can only say, it will be a whole - a region from which a few features, not necessarily those that seemed prominent at the start, will stand out in clear colours. Not to direct, but to solace us; not to fix our positions, but to show us how... Shirley Hazzard
We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against... Death belongs to God alone. Victor Hugo
All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether. Frederick Buechner
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them. Isak Dinesen
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be. Anne Lamott
Albert Camus quote: "stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if..."
stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves Albert Camus
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless. Robertson Davies
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction,..."
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adrienne Rich quote: "Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to..."
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness Adrienne Rich
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation. Brigham Young
Michel de Montaigne quote: "There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there..."
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. Michel de Montaigne

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