We can’t know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we’re not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased....

We’re all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we’re growing up.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending… we gotta let ourselves be.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

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

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into...

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn’t necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that’s unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our...

I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner’s medal. That’s not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that’s the pressure we put ourselves under.

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

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don’t let ourselves say no to an idea.

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone’s minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

We all live in a time where we’re supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to...

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.(1778 – 1830)

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

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves – how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been...

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea,...

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn’t see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world...

[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...

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

The advantage does lie with us because we’re at home and if we can’t motivate ourselves for this match then we can’t motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for...

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it’s about everyday lives.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain’s saving grace.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to...

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no...

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That’s not how I was brought up. I don’t recognize the country I live in anymore.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What’s it all about?