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Related If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE Let us ask ourselves; What kind of people do we think we are? RONALD REAGAN We pushed to do things to please ourselves for once. We pursued the things we liked and made sure th... BEN WILSON Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves. AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB We knew coming in this would be their biggest game, being their rival. We wanted to win in our last ... AARON WIES It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. ... OSCAR WILDE We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no se... CRAIG GROESCHEL Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ou... HERMANN HESSE People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... SIMON MORDEN Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves... ORISON SWETT MARDEN Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway... ERIC HOFFER Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway.... ERIC HOFFER Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselve... HENRY MILLER It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hears... ERIC HOFFER Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we ke... PENELOPE LIVELY The day for people to just give us things is over. We have to stand up for ourselves. We have to hel... CYNTHIA WILLIAMS We were so busy teaching and promoting Imago, that we didn't give ourselves enough time. HARVILLE HENDRIX I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, somet... KAMI GARCIA When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tir... MIKE SHINODA You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care o... JENNIFER LOPEZ They played well. We had plenty of opportunities, and we just couldn't do it. We give ourselves oppo... DAVE ESQUER People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. ALBERT ELLIS To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and ... PETER MCWILLIAMS I think the extra practices almost give us an edge. Now we have the opportunity to see how the (nine... CARLAI MOORE When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. S... CESAR CHAVEZ We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte... C. JOYBELL C. The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is t... PEMA CHöDRöN I can only remember two times in the first half where we executed the offense the way we do in pract... LLOYD CHURCH Everything we tried to do to shoot ourselves in the foot, worked. We were very good at shooting ours... JIM GROBE The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO This is not something that we wanted, ... We dug ourselves into a pretty big hole, but we came back.... SHERYL SWOOPES Food is the most basic forum for discussing things like love and the absence of love; how we hurt ou... LAURA BENANTI The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. MARK TWAIN We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things th... C. JOYBELL C. To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of... SARAH PAULSON With ourselves we can do nothing,but with the help of our subconscious being we can do all things. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no... JOYCE MEYER ”The inspirational things we read don’t change the daily struggles we face, but they do give us ... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Be... SIDNEY JOURARD Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... We call ourselves filmmakers; that's what we do from start to finish, and it really takes advantage ... BILL MCCULLOUGH How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that pic... STEPHEN R. COVEY We couldn't really explain it. We might have gotten a little cocky, because we were coming off such ... LESLIE FRAZIER People are attracted to who we are more than what we do. LORRIN L. LEE Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do. NALINI SINGH Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline t... AYN RAND I think people feel powerless because we don't have the time and the energy to go do the things that... MARCIA WIEDER Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we ar... FRANÇOIS FÉNÉLON We never doubted ourselves even when we were behind. That just made us buckle down and play harder. JEFF CUMBERLAND In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, s... GRACE GEALEY Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary ... BRUCE WILKINSON 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 e... RYAN GOSLING Most of us think we know ourselves pretty well. Our hopes, dreams, desires.. We cling tightly to thi... MEREDITH GREY We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a di... DAVID BELLE The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do u... ERIC HOFFER The scariest part of ayahuasca, the thing that scares us the most, is that we might see ourselves. GERARD ARMOND POWELL We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound... HAROLD BLOOM We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" tha... PANDORA POIKILOS Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, a... TORRON-LEE DEWAR There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. ... JODI PICOULT After we grew up, we had families, we had full-time jobs. For many years, we were all too busy to do... COLLEEN BROWN It is a strange thing we do, blaming ourselves when people hurt us, but we all do it. JODI AMAN We broke ground in 2000. We took our time and did most of the work ourselves. Our new building is re... JOE ROBERTS We are aware that gambling exists, and we do everything to distance ourselves from it. BRIAN MCCARTHY We judge ourselves with present things, but people judge us with the past. THE INSPIRATIONIST Most of the players are Alex McLeish signings and we want to do well for him, as well as ourselves, ALEX RAE I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never ... ELIZABETH STROUT We see what we want to see, what we expect to see, instead of what's really there. I don't think we ... LAUREN MILLER Last year, we came up short and our sophomores put it on ourselves that we didn't want to do that ag... ANTHONY SLACK Sometimes or most of the time, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore. B.C. YARAS We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us... KARL A. MENNINGER The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, a... RYAN GOSLING So you kind of know that anytime we want, we could do a tour without even an album to promote, which... RICK SAVAGE People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people.... EMMA FORREST I know the thought of confronting your past terrifies you.It terrifies every man. But sometimes we d... COLLEEN HOOVER Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for me... OSCAR WILDE If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successfu... VICTORIA BECKHAM In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify ... EMILE M. CIORAN We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anywa... VICTORIA OSTEEN If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothi... PABLO NERUDA Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased ... KATE REARDON We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can giv... BILLY JOEL The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them hap... GENE SIMMONS I thought Brooks did a good job, for the most part. When he throws the ball our receivers have to ca... HERMAN EDWARDS We were aware (the Nebraska was leading), but we were focusing on ourselves. We had to hit good rout... JANET ANSON Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free... RONALD REAGAN Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitabl... BLAISE PASCAL We've been doing this for eight years now, and I think we found ourselves comfortable enough to do i... CHAD ALAN Once upon a time, the homemaker was just Mom, but now we've evolved and come to a place where we... CHRISTINA MILIAN We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes... KAMAND KOJOURI If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer th... ALDOUS HUXLEY We buried ourselves in a hole, really. They were shooting (and) we weren't really checking them on o... JEFF LIGGINS The opinions of others do not define who we are. Remember that how we see ourselves, is the most cri... SHELLY KAY WALDE We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearabl... NEIL GAIMAN Whatever thing we do, we do it for the future. We think we are doing it for ourselves. The survival ... EPHDAN Our problem is that we really need to take responsibility for the different things we need to do. We... JAN MCDONALD If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. WILLIAM FEATHER
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