If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Marianne Williamson

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Johnny Depp

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert Camus

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk