To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Ron Paul

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
William Faulkner

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer