We do not exist for ourselves.
Thomas Merton

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
Kanye West

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
Thomas Merton

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Thomas Merton

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Hermann Hesse

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Morrie Schwartz

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

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld