Top 1200 Lies We Tell Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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.

Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.

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

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

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

As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect His strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to Him in whom our strength lies.

Obama's assault on the affluent rests upon a sky-high stack of lies. Obama is too well staffed and too well informed not to know otherwise. So, maddeningly, he straight-out lies to the American people.

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.

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

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

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

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

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.

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.

I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

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

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.

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

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

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

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

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

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

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

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these stories become so strong as to imprison us. Breaking free from our personal fortresses is a long, hard journey, but ultimately what allows one to grow.

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

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

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

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.

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

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

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

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.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

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

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

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.

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

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

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

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

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

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

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

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

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

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

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

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

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

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

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

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.

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