Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.
We are not born only for ourselves.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.