Quotes About Ourselves

“Why did I sign up for this?"
"Because we grow by challenging ourselves”
― Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

“Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)”
― Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

“My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates”
― Socrates

“Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)”
― William Hazlitt

“When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor Frankl

“We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol 1: Parerga

“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.”
― Philip Gilbert Hamilton

“Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny. Rather, it is a multidimensional dynamic entity that interacts with all things, even the very smallest. And what part we each place in it and the effect we have on it is a matter of our own choice.”
― R.G. Risch

“It is important to consider others at least as important as ourselves. This is the essence of spirituality.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling 'pissy.'

"Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves." ~ David Jenkins, 2013”
― David Jenkins

“We can't know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we're not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove