Quotes with ourselves

Quotes 321 till 340 of 578.

  • Caitlin Doughty The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Marcel Proust The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham The importance of anything in the world is precisely the importance which we attach to it ourselves.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Barbara Deming The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Earl Nightingale The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Alain de Botton The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bell Hooks The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
    Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Anna C. Brackett The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Mark Twain The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • E. M. Forster The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Booth Tarkington The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • V.S. Naipaul The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
    In a Free State (2012) 162
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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