We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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FRED ROGERS If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and tha... BLAISE PASCAL Most people believe, mistakenly, that wealth in a human society has something to do with money, but ... NICK HANAUER We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva... E. LOCKHART When we come together to play and be we are truly ourselves When we are truly ourselves it is wonder... BRAD COLBY Life is over when we allow ourselves to lose our childlike curiosity and desire to experience new th... SUMMER JEIRLES We used the protocols and source code that were published on AOL's Web site. We looked at the docume... BETH NAGENGAST We used the protocols and source code that was published on AOL's Web site. We looked at the documen... BETH NAGENGAST Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt o... DAVID RICHO The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. W... JOHN ROBBINS Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else... PHIL MCGRAW Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperf... IYANLA VANZANT Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe ... KEN ROBINSON Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not ou... THOMAS MERTON Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch... JULIA CAMERON We spend our lives trying to find, this abstract being that we can call “mine”. We lose ourselve... MARYALLE TAN Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence... MARIE CURIE Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in t... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The way we see ourselves, handle ourselves; there's too many of us [women] who still believe the way... JUDGE MABELAN EPHRIAM The opinions of others do not define who we are. Remember that how we see ourselves, is the most cri... SHELLY KAY WALDE No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as bes... SáNDOR MáRAI Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves... ORISON SWETT MARDEN One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our... RICHARD BACH We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac... MARIE CURIE We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, w... NEAL SHUSTERMAN Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in ... DAN BROWN Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves... CORRIE TEN BOOM On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who w... PATTY HOUSER But even a vessel pulsates, beats and pumps in ecstasy and in rage! I wonder are the way ... QUIETSTORMPOET That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequat... CHESTER NIMITZ That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequat... CHESTER W. NIMITZ Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in o... CAROLINE KENNEDY When we think little of ourselves, we do little with ourselves. We must think bigger of ourselves to... BRANDON A. TREAN Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can le... DAVID STRATHAIRN That which stirs within, slows or quickens, goes deep or dies out. When I speak of spirit, I am not ... MARYA HORNBACHER We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our ol... ARTHUR ASHE The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citi... AZIM PREMJI Transcending anger happens when we are able to commit to something greater than ourselves. And, iron... RHODA BARUCH We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. SHANA ALEXANDER Should we in America refuse to alter our lifestyle, I believe we will experience increasing dehumani... RICHARD BAER We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid o... 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BEN WIZNER Kindness is something that we must own and extend to ourselves, before we are
able to extend it to o... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ... JULIANA OF NORWICH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves alre... J.K. ROWLING Faith is not to believe Or pray that Providence Will help a chieve Anything we wan... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES We needed to prove to ourselves and to our fans that we were better than what we showed against St. ... ERIN EDWARDS I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. ... RICK YUNE Deep down in our hearts we have to believe we can win this game. That has to change sometime. JAMAR WILSON It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whi... K. T. JONG We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already... J.K. ROWLING In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie bac... PATRICK MODIANO Anyway, I do not want you thinking that I or Addie or Joe or Skeezie feel sorry for ourselves. We do... JAMES HOWE We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives w... LAURA KNIGHT JADCZYK We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless o... PEMA CHöDRöN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with findin... KELLY CUTRONE Once we can get on top of the spam, we can address some of our internal e-mail issues. BETSY DRAPER Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway... ERIC HOFFER Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway.... ERIC HOFFER We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselv... ORISON SWETT MARDEN
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