Ourselves - Quotes
According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. [...] How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you`ll always be alone.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, `Cause none of them can stop the time.
God doesn`t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!
When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
We were born into a mystery, one that has haunted us since at least as long as we've been human. We awakened on this tiny world beneath a blanket of stars like an abandoned baby left on a doorstep without a note to explain where we came from, who we are, how our universe came to be, and with no idea how to end our cosmic isolation. We’ve had to figure it all out for ourselves.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (movie)
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don`t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing, our hearts were never broken
And time`s forever frozen, still...
By definition, a world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there's nothing to learn. If personalization is too acute, it could prevent us from coming into contact with the mind-blowing, preconception-shattering experiences and ideas that change how we think about the world and ourselves.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.