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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.


Judith Butler

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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...
OLIVER SACKS Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
CASSANDRA KING What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ou...
JACK KORNFIELD When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ou...
JACK KORNFIELD The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves ...
C.S. LEWIS We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in t...
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SHARON STONE Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now ...
MILAN KUNDERA Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not underst...
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MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN It's part of our heritage, part of our culture. The more we move into cities, the more cool we try t...
PAUL LEVINSON Our competitive nature as humans means that we have a tendency to compare ourselves to others. You m...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful hea...
LIN YUTANG We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU As we sink deeper into the ways of this world, we put more and more distance between ourselves and G...
FATHOM In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselve...
HENRY MILLER We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO God doesn't punish us.
We do that all by ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
MILDRED NEWMAN All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourse...
AMELIA BARR When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and a...
JACK KORNFIELD We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least som...
LEARNED HAND There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping...
DAVID HEWSON There was a lot of extraordinary efforts tonight by a lot of people. We got ourselves in a position ...
TERRY FRANCONA How hungrily we read about ourselves!
GORE VIDAL What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to our...
CHRIS MASER That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we ...
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND When we think little of ourselves, we do little with ourselves. We must think bigger of ourselves to...
BRANDON A. TREAN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget w...
JASON R. THRIFT We live in a world of skeptics, don't we? ... We didn't come into this to prove ourselves.
JACK SOMMER We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid o...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
NORMAN FISCHER What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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DEYTH BANGER We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched ...
DAVID ANSEN Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this wo...
PETER DIAMANDIS We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselv...
BLAISE PASCAL A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD We humiliated ourselves. We embarrassed ourselves. I don't think I have to say much more.
TOM RENNEY It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ou...
MILLA JOVOVICH We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who d...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right
MAHATMA GANDHI Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 This matter of "salvation" is, whe...
THOMAS MERTON We must submit to the refining process in order to become a part of something greater than ourselves...
ANGEL DYKES When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious ...
VICTOR SHAMAS The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...
MALCOLM X We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God...
TERESA OF AVILA We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie ...
ELISA MARIE HOPKINS We are lucky when we are helped while we lose our balance; but we are certainly much luckier when we...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
E. M. CIORAN Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
EMILE M. CIORAN We put ourselves in this predicament and now we have to get ourselves out of it.
JESSIE EVANS It is only in a store of this size that we can offer what we want to offer and to differentiate ours...
IAN DUFFY As we more easily get in touch with others, we seem to lose touch with ourselves. We can’t solve a...
KAYLA SEVERSON When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only o...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER We just weren't ready to play. We have got to demand more out of ourselves than what we did today.
DAN MARTIN What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
STEPHEN KING It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place t...
MILLA JOVOVICH We must be inspired to expect more from ourselves than what we believe to be possible!
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ALAIN DE BOTTON We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the wor...
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
URSULA K. LE GUIN We came here to prove ourselves and we actually proved ourselves as a team to beat in 5A.
MIKE LOVE Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
THOMAS MERTON for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
FAY WELDON People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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THOMAS MERTON We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
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GUY GAVRIEL KAY What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We only betray ourselves.
MACDONALD HARRIS We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God&...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
DEAN KOONTZ How often do we miss the serendipitous beauty of the many facets of the people who populate our worl...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion....
EDWARD HOAGLAND I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with findin...
KELLY CUTRONE If only we made half as much effort to change ourselves as to change others, the world would be a be...
MUHAMMED HAIDER Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine'...
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AARON WIES More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves.
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JUDITH WRIGHT Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I ...
JUDITH JAMISON I heard directly from my source that I should testify before the grand jury,
JUDITH MILLER Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You...
JUDITH MARTIN I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry lev...
JUDITH KRANTZ If judged only by the results that challenge the laws of probabilities, then the power of prayer is ...
JUDITH HAYES My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write thing...
JUDITH VIORST Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assign...
JUDITH MILLER I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.'...
JUDITH MILLER Without Mark Felt there would have been none of the revelations that showed what began as a third-ra...
JUDITH MILLER Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to ...
JUDITH MARTIN Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by eti...
JUDITH MARTIN Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an aft...
JUDITH HAYES I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate ...
JUDITH MARTIN The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a ...
JUDITH LIGHT This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing givi...
JUDITH RODIN People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how ...
JUDITH JAMISON A rebel. That was me when I was younger. What was a rebel from New Jersey? A rebel was moving to the...
JUDITH VIORST My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a...
JUDITH JAMISON According to my interview notes, though, it appears that Mr. Libby said little more than that the as...
JUDITH MILLER In that case, we just build ingredients and recipes from the region.
JUDITH BERGER It's the ill-informed that lash out. They get it off their chests. We have found the best way is not...
JUDITH YOUNG Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief ...
JUDITH GUEST The problem with beards is the association with the '60s and '70s - the beatnik and hippie movement,...
JUDITH RASBAND We were not expecting to get caught up in the global warming debate when we published our initial re...
JUDITH CURRY While once the Judicial Conference was much more circumscribed.
JUDITH RESNIK Chief Justice Rehnquist was brilliant at enhancing that position, and Congress has played a major ro...
JUDITH RESNIK There are many innovations that have been proposed. There is a proposition that life tenure means th...
JUDITH RESNIK Chief Justice (William) Rehnquist was brilliant at enhancing that position, and Congress has played ...
JUDITH RESNIK People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of saf...
JUDITH GUEST