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?

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at – the excellences of our stage performance.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

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

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

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...

We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the...

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with...

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.