Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there’s some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You’re making it too complicated.
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
We call ourselves a dog’s ‘master’ – but who ever dared to call himself the ‘master’ of a cat? We own a dog – he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat – he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.
I feel that confidence in women – especially young girls of color – but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.
The privilege I’ve had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works… but what I’ve discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition – to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along – however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
Most of us don’t think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don’t have a vocabulary of how God works with the specific things that He does, and we don’t know how to align ourselves with what He is doing so that we can be His vehicle on the earth to deliver a miracle.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
The pressure will always be there. If we enjoy the pressure, then we will be able to do well, but if we put ourselves under pressure, then we can get into trouble.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They’re linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We’re passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that’s what makes our life full of meaning.
I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don’t really consider myself that at all.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’
Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
We don’t come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that’s why, over the years, in my movies I’ve had characters who didn’t care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.
Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.
I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can – must have some sort of responsibility, because they’re in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Most people think when the world gets itself together, we’ll all be okay. I don’t see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don’t think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.
We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.
There’s a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades – a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We’re rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas.
No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can’t let people’s nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
