Top 1200 Deceiving Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.

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

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

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

When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by at full speed. Left alone with ourselves, without a project to occupy us, we can become nervous and self-critical about what we should be doing and feeling. This can be so uncomfortable that we look for any distraction rather than allowing ourselves the space to be as we are.

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

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

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

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

We should stop calling ourselves environmentalists - and just call ourselves patriots.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we don't know how to create, and the goals we want to achieve. It is by getting in touch with ALL the parts of ourselves - by having a gentle dialogue with all the "selves" we have inside - that we integrate them into a more comfortable, peaceful way of being with ourselves.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

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

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

When we grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we're helping, ourselves we're healing.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

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

We all have found ourselves in awkward, embarrassing situations, often brought on by ourselves - thinking we are saying something clever, for example, when it turns out to sound really mean or stupid. Those are the kind of embarrassing situations that we could have avoided. "Welcome to the human race," is about the only comfort we can give ourselves.

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.