At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be ‘someone else’. After erring and drifting, we eventually realize we want to discover ‘ourselves’, without any airbrushing, so as to meet our real self and not the one imposed on us. ("Lost the global story.")
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try... SUSIE ORBACH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD [...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER SELF-IMPOSED SLAVERY:
When we invest our lives doing things that build someone else's dreams, but me... TERENCE T. GORSKI Mate after mate we find ourselves trying to adapt to who they want us to be till eventually we lose ... AL-SAADIQ BANKS We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover... WALTER LIPPMANN We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover ... WALTER LIPPMANN As we manage the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, finding opportunities to quietly be with ourse... JENNY DOH To develop emotional and erotic intelligence we need to practice enlarging our inner passion at ever... ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do n... RANDY KOMISAR We all have times when we lack confidence and don’t feel good about ourselves and this is the mome... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li... BLAISE PASCAL We don't want to feel helpless, so we use fear, anger, addiction, or unbridled sexuality to block ou... DAVID F. ALLEN It's only when we free ourselves of those self-imposed boundaries, when we listen to our hearts and ... LARRY VANDERHOEF Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Preparation is good for success and it is a noble thing to prepare excellently for success, but in r... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other wa... CHRIS WOODING Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves,... HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When... THOMAS MERTON In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourse... LIZZIE VELáSQUEZ When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can ... DANIEL AKST I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or ot... SHAKTI GAWAIN In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past red... DAN B. ALLENDER How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l... JULIAN BARNES Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-e... JOSEF PIEPER It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In ... THOMAS MERTON Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to... SHAKTI GAWAIN We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of o... PETER JACKSON Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thought... JOHN LEMBO We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselv... RANDALL KENNEDY We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities. BEN OAK Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because t... SHARON SALZBERG We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we ju... MURIEL BARBERY We went out on hard-packed snow the other day. Our first part of the season will be training. We are... GARY HEIDE At the beginning of our season we all actually said that to ourselves, that this is not how we want ... CARLY CURRAN When questioning ourselves, we must identify, where we are heading to. Do we prefer our life to rema... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and... SAINT IGNATIUS Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch... JULIA CAMERON Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in ... OSCAR WILDE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, w... JENNA MORASCA Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but ... FRED ROGERS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts rais... ERIK PEVERNAGIE [From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this re... KARL BARTH Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions. PARUL WADHWA Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t... NAZIM AMBALATH My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we ... FRANKI Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in it... SHUNRYU SUZUKI Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. ... JAMES C. DOBSON We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie ... ELISA MARIE HOPKINS We each have our own language. Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sens... HOLLY SMALE We clearly separated ourselves from everyone else in the fall. We didn't want to be complacent with ... CHRIS WILSON Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we... JAMES E. FAUST Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, an... ANNA C. SALTER When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only o... J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER When our mind is in shambles and we dare to reflect on the story of our life, we may discover, in th... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down an... JESS C. SCOTT We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the jour... EARL NIGHTINGALE We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged
in work we enjoy on the jour... EARL NIGHTINGALE Basic Principles: 1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creati... JULIA CAMERON We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery ... SIMON TUGWELL The beauty of life is to experience ourselves with patience & self belief.Patience is ability to kee... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A person experiments in life and reflects upon those events in order to discover how to lead a meani... KILROY J. OLDSTER Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 Our knowledge of God is paradoxica... THOMAS MERTON Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves... ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame ... OSCAR WILDE There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame ... OSCAR WILDE We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" tha... PANDORA POIKILOS We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the jour... EARL NIGHTINGALE Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we ar... FRANÇOIS FÉNÉLON We did most things in one take. We never play a song the same way. We're trying to take our music in... JACK JOSTES Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity ... THICH NHAT HANH Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of... HARRIET GOLDHOR LERNER We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient method... JOHN STEINBECK After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't ha... STEVE TOLTZ We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient met... JOHN STEINBECK If we choose to look at the negativity it is likely we may be victim of uncertainty and may put ours... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If we choose to look at the negativity it is likely we may be victim of uncertainty and may put ours... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth w... ANN MARIE AGUILAR We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes... KAMAND KOJOURI Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Be... SIDNEY JOURARD Coretta, Betty and I had a very special relationship. We were known as 'the widows of.' And we often... MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Eternal love is a gracious phenomenon, but often remains a temporary concern. ( “I seek you”) ERIK PEVERNAGIE When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore,... ERIK PEVERNAGIE If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our me... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable. ... 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ERIK PEVERNAGIE We might not be able to know what reality is about, but we can’t but be aware of the explicitness ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it crea... ERIK PEVERNAGIE The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘all... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men’s world with impervious codes, may feel ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self an... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchm... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle th... ERIK PEVERNAGIE The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping l... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been i... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When we are able to break free from the imprisonment of our little, small self-thinking and dare to ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pai... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Everyone has prejudices, but some can correct them, others stick in the mud and remain diehard. ERIK PEVERNAGIE Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can'... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extrem... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that str... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no eco... ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let m... ERIK ESTRADA There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ... ERIK ERIKSON The power of social media is it forces necessary change. ERIK QUALMAN It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard.... ERIK QUALMAN The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flush... ERIK LARSON My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jer... ERIK GRIFFIN The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign usi... ERIK LARSON In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political ... ERIK LARSON Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. ERIK LARSON To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow. ERIK NUPPONEN Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plu... ERIK PAULSEN I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can. ERIK LARSON With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and service... ERIK QUALMAN I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a... ERIK LARSON Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ERIK ERIKSON My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching... ERIK ESTRADA The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others. ERIK ERIKSON As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I al... ERIK LARSON When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l... ERIK ERIKSON You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things ... ERIK ERIKSON In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of ident... ERIK ERIKSON I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and wor... ERIK LARSON