We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it’s very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as ‘A Great Big World,’ and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

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...

Our response has been, ‘Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.’ That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

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...

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

We’re all the harshest judges of ourselves.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that’s just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don’t...

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

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...

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We’ve kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don’t need. I’m anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of...

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

I don’t think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn’t have one. In fact, we weren’t very stable ourselves.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

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...