Quotes 541 till 560 of 578.
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What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.
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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
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When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
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When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, ''We did it ourselves.''
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
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When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness.
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When we attend a funeral, we are apt to comfort ourselves with the happy difference there is betwixt us and our dead friend.
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
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When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
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