It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
David Foster Wallace

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Rollo May

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
Bruce Springsteen

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
Mortimer Adler

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
Margaret J. Wheatley

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Ernest Shackleton

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
Christina Aguilera

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Arthur Ashe

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Bernard Baruch

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Baruch

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Paul Tournier

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin