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Ourselves Quotes (page 45)

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed. Sue Grafton
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism. Theodore Roosevelt
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt..."
There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. Kurt Vonnegut
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete... Norman Maclean
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone? Haruki Murakami
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work? Edgar Degas
George Orwell quote: "We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with..."
We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. George Orwell
These days my sole desire is that our lives should be simple and straightforward, that all around us there should be peace and cheerfulness, that our way of life should be unostentatious and full of bounty, that our needs should be small and our aims high and our efforts unselfish and our work for others more important than our work for ourselves. Rabindranath Tagore
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? Kazuo Ishiguro
Jack Vance quote: "We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as..."
We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any. Jack Vance
it gripped her hand gently. 'regret is for humans,' it said. she laughed. 'really?' the machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'oh no, it's just something we tell ourselves. Iain Banks
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all. Walt Whitman
We once knew well our Elder Brother and our Father in Heaven. We rejoiced at the prospects of earth life that could make it possible for us to have a fullness of joy. We could hardly wait to demonstrate to our Father and our Brother, the Lord, how much we loved them and how we would be obedient to them in spite of the earthly opposition of the evil one. Now we are here. Our memories are veiled. We are showing God and ourselves what we can do. Nothing is going to startle us more when we... Ezra Taft Benson
Vincent Price quote: "Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can..."
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others. Vincent Price
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others Iain Banks

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