Quotes with ourselves

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  • Bernhard von Bulow Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • A.R. Orage The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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  • Archibald Macleish To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night - brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Bill Watterson We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • St. Teresa of Avila We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Confucius We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld ''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Marcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Simone Weil A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Lao-Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Caroline Leavitt A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Malcolm X A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • M. Rutherford A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Arthur Golden Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
    The Remains of the Day (2009) 244
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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