Top 1200 Protecting Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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.

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.

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

Protecting the sanctity of life is a matter of principle.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from 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 must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

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

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.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

Protecting our kids is a sacred obligation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

Protecting our democracy shouldn't be a partisan issue.

Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel.

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

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