Ourselves Quotes

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.