Forgiveness truly brings freedom. If we don’t forgive, bitterness and anger build to the point where not only are we hurting ourselves, but in the process can hurt others around us.

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

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

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It’s us looking at ourselves – and like all human endeavors it’s imperfect.

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

It’s funny because I think a lot of it is simply… We’ve never considered ourselves satirists, but because we’re on Comedy Central and because we’re South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic...

I’ve heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves – how gravely we fall short.

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the...

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we’ll come up with some scary stuff.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

When we are content and secure in ourselves, it leaves with having no desire to set ourselves up as superior to anyone else. When we simply celebrate our own individuality we allow others to do...

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally...

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates – we’re mostly out for ourselves.

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

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

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always...

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay...

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....

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can’t get mad at what we do, because then they’re just making of themselves.

The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the...

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been...

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

When we are honest – that’s my saying – if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

The greatest love is self love. When we work toward our inner self and self worth, that, is the best gift we give to ourselves.

A lot of us think we’re invincible… but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

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.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you...

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to...

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and...

All over the world, people are looking at India and saying ‘wow’, and that’s because we have begun to say ‘wow’ ourselves.

The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

I don’t think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level...

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

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

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the...

I feel like it’s important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.