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Ourselves Quotes (page 24)

Napoleon Bonaparte quote: "A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the..."
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. Napoleon Bonaparte
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of... Neil Gaiman
Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are. Charles de Lint
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote: "To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is..."
To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Emile M. Cioran quote: "We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill..."
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. Emile M. Cioran
When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet who demands more complex sauces with his food. Graham Greene
If we say that we have no sin,We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin,And so consequently die.Ay, we must die an everlasting death. Christopher Marlowe
Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses. Michel de Montaigne
HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. William Shakespeare
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions. Joseph Brodsky
Oscar Wilde quote: "we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others"
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others Oscar Wilde
We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for... Ossie Davis
The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but this is a thinking reed. It isn't necessary for the entire universe to arm itself in order to crush him; a whiff of vapor, a taste of water, suffices to kill him. But when the universe crushes him, the human being becomes still more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and the advantage that the universe has over him. The universe, it does not have a clue."All our dignity consists, then, in thought.... Blaise Pascal
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough..."
God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. Barbara Kingsolver

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