261 Quotes About Ourselves

Circumstances and environments have influence over us, but we are responsible for ourselves.

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves

When we compare ourselves with others, the pain of being inferior is usually more dominant than the pleasure of being a cut above.

When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )

It is of our nature to exceed ourselves. Overflowing the mesaure is built into what we are. So, too, is rejoicing in this superabundance for its own sake. Yet too lavish an excess, like too vaulting an ambition, may lead us to overreach ourselves and bring ourselves to nothing. Like Lady Macbeh, one can forget that constraints (the demands of kinship or hospitality, for example) are costitutive of the self, not simply obstacles to its expression.

We curl around our own pain until we can’t see beyond ourselves. You want to walk on? Walk out of that shadow.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.