Being Ourselves Quotes
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Being Ourselves Quotes & Sayings
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Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.
— Charlotte Bronte
Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
— James Wolcott
It is not being alone but being with ourselves that is the killer.
— Richard Kalish
Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.
— Martina Boone
We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
— David Steindl-Rast
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
— Zora Neale Hurston
That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth.
— Adrian Walker
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
— Rabindranath Tagore
To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
— Fernando Pessoa
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
— Ron Jeffries
I think that being a soul in flesh is really challenging and we should all give ourselves more credit.
— S. Kelley Harrell
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
— Malcolm X
The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.
— James Van Praagh
We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
— Mary E. DeMuth
Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual. - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins
— Nancy S. Mure
What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves. — Mark Strand
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
We have to stick up for ourselves as people and we have to stick up for our country when we're being mistreated, remember that.
— Donald Trump
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Becoming is better than being. Perfectionism doesn't exist. We need to stretch ourselves and continue learning.
— Iben Dissing Sandahl
We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
— Julia Cameron
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
— Eric Hoffer
To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.
— Brother Lawrence
If we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone. We stop being a source of suffering to the world, and we become a reservoir of joy and freshness.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.
— Myles Munroe
We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.
— Linda Masemore Pirrung
We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
— Oprah Winfrey
Despite dissimilarities in our luck and success at looking after ourselves, we are all human beings.
— Naguib Mahfouz
We hide from ourselves by being with others.
— Frederick Lenz
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
— Ray Bradbury
The body can limit our ability to experience life to the fullest, especially if we identify ourselves as being only our bodies.
— Lee L Jampolsky
In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
— Martin Freeman
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.
— John McCain
The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.
— Eartha Kitt
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
— Wendell Berry
And that is what we should all strive for. Being able to look in the mirror and love ourselves for who we are and what we've done.
— Jessica Scott
Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.
— Kathleen McDonald
I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.
— Andie MacDowell
Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.
— Kathleen Hanna
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
We can change our rewards. It just takes a shift in out thought patterns and being gentle and patient with ourselves.
— Damon Gameau
I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
— Richard Preston
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
— Heber J. Grant
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
— Robert Graves
There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.
— Piero Ferrucci
We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.
— Cynthia Hand
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
— Seneca The Elder
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
— Honore De Balzac
Why do I write?To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear — Rainbow Rowell
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
— Jerome K. Jerome
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
— Leo Buscaglia
We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.
— Bryant H. McGill
One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.
— Cortney S. Warren
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
— Walter Savage Landor
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are.
— Melody Beattie
We turn ourselves into beasts so that we may cope with being human.
— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
— Aldous Huxley
Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.
— L.M. Browning
We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.
— Miroslav Volf
This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.
— David Ervine
It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
— Donald Fagen
