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Ourselves Quotes (page 91)

We think of ourselves now as eaters of the pie instead of makes of the pie...Corporations make the pie. They make it and we eat it. David Foster Wallace
Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture. Dwight L. Moody
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. Carl Sagan
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves? Alain de Botton
Rollo May quote: "Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the..."
Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man Rollo May
If our systems should fail, we would faithfully report the fact. We have no ego-protection that would cause us to deceive you or ourselves. Whereasyou are engaged in ego-protection right now. You thought you would be necessary during the voyage, and you now discover that you were not. This makes you feel bad. Orson Scott Card
Will Durant quote: "To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves."
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Will Durant
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. Aldous Huxley
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand and hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Aldous Huxley
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation - a book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. John Berryman
John Adams quote: "You and I ought not to die, before we have explained ourselves..."
You and I ought not to die, before we have explained ourselves to each other. John Adams
Sterling Hayden quote: "In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the..."
In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone. Sterling Hayden

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