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Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves. — Ann Curry

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves. — George Sand

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time. — Walter Scott

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better. — Marsha Thomason

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better. — Laverne Cox

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are. — Michael Nichols

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better of ourselves — Chuck Palahniuk

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world. — Matthieu Ricard

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it — Otto Von Bismarck

The only reason the field continues to grow is because of increasing demand. The more we try to make ourselves feel better, the worse we seem to feel. — Simon Sinek

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are. — Pema Chodron

We advise others better than ourselves. — Norm MacDonald

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves. — Criss Jami

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances. — Helen Keller

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. — Hermann Hesse

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves. — Peter Gavin Hall

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves. — Sarah McLachlan

And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God ... must it be sane? — Lucien LaCroix

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. — Ann Bancroft

We had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves. — Deepak Chopra

Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe if we all force ourselves to act like we're okay even if we're not, eventually things will get better. — Nina LaCour

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before. — Ron Wood

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better. — Deb Caletti

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Start Change Ourselves to Better and Then the World — Jan Jansen

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

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. — Orison Swett Marden

Everyone wants the sun let shine, and the neighbor's grass is always greener, so it is better to mow it ourselves. — Jan Jansen

As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves. — Wilson Chebet

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. — J.K. Rowling

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. — Alastair Reynolds

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better. — Rob Pike

When we inconvenience ourselves to make someone's day more enjoyable, we not only give them hope; we also become better people. — Jamie Larbi

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed? — David Foster Wallace

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate. — Alan Beattie

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones. — Melinda Gates

We work better with authoritative, empathic leaders, and empathic teachers like ourselves, that fit our morals, values, ethics, and principles. — Alexandria Ruffian

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties. — Philip Sidney

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied. — George Harrison

Start to Better Ourselves and Then the Global. — Jan Jansen

We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves. — Stephanie Barron

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall. — Odetta

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

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. — Wendell Berry

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously. — Pras Michel

We all have issues. Human beings are flawed, and all we can hope for is to work toward making ourselves better. Not perfect, just better. — L. H. Cosway

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. — Richard Bach

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced. — Judith Viorst

Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change. — Karen S. Shelton

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We need not forgive ourselves," he (Augustus) said. "It has been a marriage. It has been better than most. — John Williams

God wants us to believe in something bigger and better than ourselves. — Jessica Lowery

Struggles not only make us into stronger, better and wiser people, they also let us learn more about ourselves and our purpose in life. — Auliq Ice

Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn't make it better. — Shannon A. Thompson

Let's love ourselves, then we can't fail,
To make a better situation.
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow,
All we need is dedication! — Lauryn Hill

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world. — Tariq Ramadan

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. — Edmund Burke

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song? — Marty Stuart

We can not change history, we can not turn back time, but we can change ourselves,change for the better. — Faiz Triumph

In fact, we take much better care of our smartphones than ourselves. — Arianna Huffington

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves — Darius Bolton

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing. — Jane Austen

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves. — James Hollis

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves. — Zach Braff

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. — Jean De La Bruyere

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves. — C.S. Lewis

When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes. — Elizabeth George

A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves. — Nicholas Sparks

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better — Monty Don

A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us. — Orison Swett Marden

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. — Orison Swett Marden

When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves. — Erwin McManus

The better I know you, the more I will dislike you, and the more you will dislike me. So let us keep to ourselves. — Katherine Boo

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. — Will Durant

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves. — Karl Popper

What I do think is that we have to take what happens and learn from it and make ourselves a better person because of it. — Lindsay Paige

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. — Beth Simone Noveck

Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves. — Nouman Ali Khan

If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves. — Auliq Ice

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future. — Sunday Adelaja

Becoming is better than being. Perfectionism doesn't exist. We need to stretch ourselves and continue learning. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. — Bernard Baruch

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. — Pema Chodron

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared. — Jim Crace

When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take
care of ourselves. — Aletheia Luna

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role. — George Singleton

Our prayers must be in accordance with [God's] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves. — Billy Graham

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. — George Eliot

If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live. — Dainin Katagiri

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours. — Nick Vujicic

It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants — David Orr

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. — Sarah Gadon

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it — Arianna Huffington

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good. — Melody Beattie

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? — Joy Adamson