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.

You know, there’s a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it’s misnamed. We’re not so much trying to help people as we’re trying to help ourselves. So let’s be clear...

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves – which is a terrible idea.

The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves...

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types...

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

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this – attack ourselves – every hour of our lives.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There’s the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating – on our...

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

The roundness of life’s design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

I think what makes us human – is our interconnectedness among people. It’s our ability to form and maintain relationships. It’s the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that’s fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

We are evolving as one species – not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous...

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny. Rather, it is a multidimensional dynamic entity that interacts with all things, even the very smallest. And...

For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so – not really. I was comfortable, though....

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature – not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we’re inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes...

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don’t try, you...

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn’t have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

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.