Ourselves Quotes

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

The world is a mirror of ourselves.

We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.

When we practice self-compassion in our lives, we are compelled to be more understanding and accepting toward ourselves.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.

We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us

Many of us are destined to be alone, while most of us sentence ourselves to it.

Isn't unconditional love supposed to work both ways? How can we expect unconditional love for ourselves if we are not willing to grant others the same mercy?

So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life.

When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and circumstance to determine our life course.

In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.

Life is a prison in which we find ourselves.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?

It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.

a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

Just we know what we want. Just we can discover our anticipation. Just we can understand ourselves. so find yourself. Invest time on finding yourself rather than investing enrgy recklessly on the undesirable people. Consequently disappointment will lessen and happiness will belimp.

Only in making peace - with ourselves, with others, and the world - will any of us find the life we are hoping for.

And so to tame Christmas we spin myths to temper the story, we create our own caricatures to speak our own lines into the script, we gift ourselves to enhance an adventure now lagging, and we think we’re on a grand adventure when we’ve completely forgotten what an adventure is.

When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves.

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the world, then?’‘An illusion,’ replied Altaïr. ‘One we can either submit to – as most do – or transcend.’‘And what is it to transcend?’'To recognize that laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our Creed does not command us to be free.’ And suddenly he really did understand. ‘It commands us to be wise

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

I think the purpose of life is to know who we are to ourselves and others, to know where we are in terms of time and place, and to do what we can to stay alive. what happens thereafter is the purpose of death.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us.

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves."The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year.

If we could think about somebody else other than ourselves for a few minutes a day, this world would be so much better off.

For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need

The more we try to stop others from falling, the more we hurt ourselves.

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.

Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself.

We dress ourselves up in lies,So that the nakedness of truth doesn't come out.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.

It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling 'pissy.'"Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves." ~ David Jenkins, 2013

Life - Don't waste it!

The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine just the way we are.

You can't be me and I can't be you, so I guess that means we'll have to be ourselves.

Why did I sign up for this?''Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

God doesn't punish us.We do that all by ourselves.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

We are all 'right' if we are being truly ourselves.... that is the best we can be in each moment, until we learn more...

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )