The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

We want to keep doing our own music and show our own colors.

Louder Than Bombs’ shows our inner shadows.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

“KAREN On Wednesdays, we array ourselves in pink!”

“Goethe wisely wrote, however, that ’we are, and ought to be, obscure to ourselves, turned outwards, and working upon the world which surrounds us.’13 We see ourselves, and therefore come to know ourselves, only indirectly, through our engagement with the world at large.”

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.

When everything changes, it’s a chance to reinvent ourselves.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don’t know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

We do not exist for ourselves

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth’s surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

The world is actually full of challenges and we need to challenge ourselves. I took a challenge to run that fast. It consumes a lot of energy especially mentally. But I took myself and accepted to be challenged and I challenged the time.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Know yourself, to know others.

Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

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.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourself.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still, small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

We cut flowers because we think they’re pretty, we cut ourselves because we think we’re not.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better

Our God-given right to protect our country, ourselves, and our families shouldn’t be up for debate.

None but ourselves can free our mind

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing…when we save our children, we save ourselves.

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

We ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.

Lastly, we can learn to have faith in ourselves and our creative abilities, no matter how difficult the task may seem.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be ‘to be satiable in learning’ and towards others ‘to be tireless in teaching.

We’re all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present Life away to win-
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man…?

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

Happiness depends upon ourselves

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn’t a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves

The government didn’t have to put tracking devices on us. We bought them and put them on ourselves.

Even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

The picture that we have of ourselves — our self-concept — will always determine how we respond to life.