1910 Ourselves Quotes for You to Enjoy

Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction. Evan Spiegel

Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness. Gary Zukav

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. Georges Bernanos

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

Progress Ourselves Tell Lies Empty Making Chair

Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories. Hassanal Bolkiah

Success Future Confidence Peace Prosperity Matter Depend Our Backgrounds Ourselves All Nations Partners Faiths Cultures Histories Just Nations Hence

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves. Henepola Gunaratana

Will Whatever Others Ourselves Toward Attitudes Use

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. Henri Nouwen

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person. Herbie Hancock

Other Other Countries Our Ourselves Some Open Countries Re-Examine Ideas Look Globalization Comfortable Cultures Person Them Average Average Person Means

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people. Irvin D. Yalom

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. J. K. Rowling

Secretly Ourselves Out More Absurd Make Than Little

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. J. Michael Straczynski

Myth Become Lost Society Aimless Back Hundred Hundred Years Ourselves Horizon Rather Point Mythology Over Came Years Lot Western Western Society Going Wandering Where Really Who Last

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers who might have different priorities than we ourselves have. Jeff Kober

Day Culture Will Strangers Our Ourselves Environment New Perhaps Priorities Continually Discovering Than Interacting Different Might Who Traveling

We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person doing the same thing, but because we are viewing them from our own unique perspectives, they mirror back to us something different. Jen Sincero

You Brilliant Example Mirror Hilarious Own Same Thing Relate Others Back Our Those Ourselves Find Someone Something Only Could For Example Annoying Because Idiotic Doing Person Same Different Them Us Perspectives Notice Viewing Unique Thing Things

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. Jill Lepore

Privacy Secrecy Everyone Ourselves Know Known Us Keep

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion

Live Ourselves Tell Order Stories

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism. Jodi Rell

Faith Good Own Incredible State Our Ourselves Must Worthy Citizens Above Highest Over Fellow Fellow Citizens Fairness Always Prove Trusted Privilege Offices Place Public Choose Serving

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway. Joel Kinnaman

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. John Dryden

Anger Others Intoxication Hides Ourselves Like Us Grape Shows

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems. John Eccles

Appreciation World Better Problems Will Men Understanding Society Our Ourselves Fact Better Understanding Fellow Fellow Men Brain In Fact Richer Whole Extent

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