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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
Source: Ann Druyan (2011) 354 -
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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None but ourselves can free our minds.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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