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We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
Brad Pitt
Mysteries
Difficult
Other
Complex
Ourselves
Reminds
Same
Storytelling
Then
Us
Each
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.
Brandon Boyd
Love
Made
Before
Ourselves
Learn
To Love
Illegal
Suggest
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.
Brennan Manning
God
Grace
Denial
Guilt
Impress
Our
Hiding
Ourselves
Out
About
Points
Gospel
Fix
Trying
Flat
Flat Out
While
Pettiness
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
Carol Bellamy
Rights
Dignity
Practice
Other
Respecting
Ourselves
Without
Discrimination
Us
Each
Treating
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe
Democracy
You
Wake Up
Year
Rule
Ourselves
Something
Ten
Ten Years
Put
Learn
Practicing
Years
Wake
Up
Begin
Again
Then
Away
Start
If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
Christiane Amanpour
Respect
Our
Ourselves
No Respect
How
Any
Then
Viewers
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
Constantin Brancusi
Mind
Difficult
State
Ourselves
Putting
Make
Them
Things
We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.
Deepak Chopra
Our
Way
Ourselves
About
Identity
Real
Educate
Really
Who
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
E. Joseph Cossman
Life
Leadership
Business
Others
Our
Ourselves
Get
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson
Environmental
Behavior
Our
Ourselves
Corrosive
Unavoidable
Economic
Risky
Economic Growth
Price
Take
New
Accept
Stock
Very
Whether
Ethic
Us
Choice
Search
Population
Growth
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt
Love
Today
Book
First
Half
Lost
Incomplete
Other
Ourselves
Has-Been
Must
Absence
Volumes
Parted
Feel
Like
Understand
Been
Exists
Begin
Lack
Romantic
Which
Each
Two
Imagine
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
Loneliness
Beginning
Thinking
Final
Ourselves
Longer
Talk
Genuine
End
Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.
Edward Hirsch
Pulse
Related
Way
Ourselves
Out
Rises
Takes
Sound
Motion
Falls
Heartbeat
Rhythm
Breathe
Us
If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
Eileen Brennan
Laugh
Ourselves
Condition
Going
Human
Human Condition
Mean
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Feeling
Pleasant
Pleasure
Ourselves
Worthless
Favors
Gives
Partly
Altogether
Doing
Surprise
Us
Derive
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
George Soros
Organization
Power
Nation
Defeat
Earth
Ourselves
Powerful
Powerful Nation
Quagmire
Most
Most Powerful
Terrorist
Caught
Getting
Us
External
All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.
Guy Finley
Love
Old
Compassion
Will
Sacrifice
Resolve
Humility
Secrets
Ourselves
About
Share
Know
Sorrows
Within
Reveal
Then
Us
Awaits
Ever
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Quality
Satisfied
Others
Ourselves
Charm
More
Makes
Us
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
Henri Nouwen
Strength
People
Will
Faithful
Expectation
Own
Nothing
Thinking
Others
Our
Ourselves
Weakness
Must
Open
Shared
Freely
Cling
Cease
Itself
Privileges
Manifest
Who
Defend
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.
Isaac Newton
Faith
Obedience
Law
King
Men
Free
Those
Ourselves
Oaths
Would
Allegiance
More
Only
Absolute
Free Men
Him
Due
Were
Than
Whereas
Fidelity
Swear
Land
Requires
Notwithstanding
Sworn
Slaves
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
Isabella Rossellini
Dark
Dark Side
Side
Everyone
Ourselves
Personalities
Honest
Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
Jacque Fresco
Old
Values
Creation
Consider
Consideration
System
Ourselves
Accept
Although
Without
Still
Cling
Encourages
Shortages
Us
Breeds
Many
Monetary
Sufficient
Actually
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War
Live
State
Virtue
Ourselves
Combat
Always
If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.
Jena Malone
Good
World
Incredible
Laugh
Ourselves
Would
Would-Be
Could
Good Times
Times
Just
Hard
Hard Times
Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
Jewel
Time
Spend
Ourselves
Most
Knowing
Reacting
Any
Just
Us
Keep
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
Jonathan Sacks
God
Forgiveness
To Be Honest
Plead
Our
Recognize
Ourselves
Admit
Imperfections
Failures
Clemency
Us
Honest
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