1910 Ourselves Quotes for You to Enjoy

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves. John Jewel

God Word Mind Ourselves Know Us

Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living. John Lewis

Life Love Freedom Peace Before Living Way Ourselves Protest Disciplined Non-Violence Were Committed Any Whether Rides Prepared March

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. John Perry Barlow

Together People Matter Long Half Futile Ourselves Pursue Outset Knew Missing Most Real Were Years Did Real Thing Where Either Fantasy Dismiss Search Found Thing

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison

Nature Human Nature Ourselves Weakness Temper Greatest Human Inconsistency

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. Julia Cameron

Best Good Try Will Nothing Enough Worst Ourselves Tells Pursuit Part Perfectionism Quest Again Us Should Ever

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others. Justin Simien

Others Ourselves Empathy Reveal Stories Us Teach Skins

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Karen Blixen

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. Kavita Ramdas

Class Struggle Women Feminism Oppressor Every Too Other Assumptions Unlike Distinct Ruling Ruling Class Ourselves Almost Often Movement Hold Against Social Far Held Beliefs Deeply Set

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. Laura Riding

Circle Criticism Live Draw Circumference Ourselves Out Spiders Like Hollow

We need to recover our true nature by relocating ourselves on this planet, being respectful of our environment, and living in harmony with other species - like a big family. Laurent Baheux

Family Nature Big Living Other Harmony Our Respectful Ourselves Recover Environment True Like True Nature Big Family Being Planet Species Need

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves. Learned Hand

Win Made Finished Lose Ourselves Fabrication Some Finished Product Part Most Concerned Least Real Doing Done May Product Whose

That animal part of us, it's the most interesting part. It's everything that has to do with drives, with things we can't stop ourselves from doing, with all the spaces where we're unable to reason with ourselves. It has its dark side, but there's a luminous side, too, which is the fact that we're just another species of animal. Leila Slimani

Animal Dark Dark Side Too Side Everything Unable Ourselves Fact Drives Part Most Another Doing Just Stop Where Spaces Which Interesting Us Reason Species Luminous Things

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. Lewis Thomas

Life Time Face Few Young Too Other Earth Evolution Ourselves Thousand Thousand Years Threatening No Time Taking Parts Spread Still Years Covering Clocks Trusted Just Forms Juvenile Planet Across Livable Now Species

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are. Lisa Kleypas

Hate Difficult Ourselves Admit Most Vulnerable How Us Honest

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. Lucretia Mott

Truth Too Ourselves Rather Than Authorities Often Bind

However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us. Maimonides

God Great Mind Our Ourselves Find Comprehend Prophets Divine Thus Between Ideals Partition Him Frequently Exertion Hint However Existence Any May Screen Being Us

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice. Malcolm Gladwell

Justice World Illusion Important Everything Says Ourselves Some Idea Fairness Very Just Happen Psychology Which Us Convince Creates Theory Reason Elemental Things Things Happen

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan

Age Ourselves See More More And More Toward Being Form Information Moving Translated Electronic Extension Technological Consciousness

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress. Martha Beck

Time Good Practice Nothing Active Think Thinking Our Ourselves Telling Distress Constantly Mental Hygiene Most Call Doing Brains Wall Often While Us Should Working Rife Based Staring Wasting Wasting Time Core

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