I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday. Robert Crais
I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence. Richard Paul Evans
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it. Paul Auster
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being. Matthew Tobin Anderson
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. Greg Lemond
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. Paul Auster
I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures. Michael Eric Dyson
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago. Sandra Cisneros
Ice shows give us the opportunity to forget ourselves and just perform. They are amazing opportunities to be in front of audience to try out new material, to show new costuming. It's an incredible opportunity to do what we do without the stress of worrying about what a judge is going to say.Johnny Weir
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. Leo Buscaglia
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.Gautama Buddha
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves. Polly Berrien Berends
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.Gautama Buddha