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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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.
We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
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.
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
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.
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.