Ourselves Quotes

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.