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Ourselves Quotes (page 43)

C. S. Lewis quote: "If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall..."
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. C. S. Lewis
Sometimes I think that when we say our honour prevents us from doing this or that we deceive ourselves, and our real motive is vanity. W. Somerset Maugham
Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown? Michael Faraday
Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone knows all this and does not desire to be saved, what can be said of him? Blaise Pascal
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts. Thomas Merton
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Carl Sagan
As we go about living from day to day, it is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone? Thomas S. Monson
In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past. Don DeLillo
it's natural to die...the fact that we make a big hullabaloo over it, is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies. Mitch Albom
John Irving quote: "If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves."
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. John Irving
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived. Paulo Coelho
John Steinbeck quote: "If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our..."
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. John Steinbeck
Marcel Proust quote: "We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable,..."
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. Marcel Proust
He desired her vaguely but without convinction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him. She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love -- first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.... Albert Camus
Marcel Proust quote: "It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused."
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. Marcel Proust

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