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Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Progress Perfection Asking Ourselves
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

Love Image Perfect Potential
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Sorrow Fear Life Approach
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

Cling Defend Freely Shared
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
Rise High Thought Self-esteem
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Disturb Hate Person Part
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

About Ill Ourselves Rather
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Beginning Find Fit Image
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Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Character Exact Growth Language
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I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Accept Approve Everything Exactly
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Race Nature
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Echo Example Eyes Imitate
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

Love Alone Cowardice Betrayal
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To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.

Love Cowardice Betrayal Ourselves
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Applied Best Dedication Determination
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Spite Loved Rather Life
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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Cannot Ignore Know Love
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Loyalty Obedience Wisdom Arbitrary power
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Addressing Anxieties Build Capable
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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess
Set Our goals High Demand more
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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

Actor Different Feel Like
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We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.

Aspect Carry Enter Eternal
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Being Different Different Things May
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I am convinced, and I want you also to be convinced, that the future of this vast country must depend, in the main, on the efforts of ourselves to help ourselves. This we cannot do if we do not work together in unity.

Convinced Country Depend Unity
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Let us set aside cynicism and strive for the good society that we know is within our reach. Let us discard the habit of low expectations of ourselves as well as of our leaders.

Cynicism Good society Our leaders Habit
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

Everyone Returns us Different sense Become
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Thinking of ourselves as somehow special isolates us.

Thinking Ourselves Somehow special Isolate us
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

All changes Most longed We leave Behind us
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

We forfeit Three fourths Ourselves Other people
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We should only strive to be first-rate versions of ourselves. And our best is always good enough.

Only strive First rate versions Our best Good enough
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We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.

Must reject The stereotypes Other hold Of ourselves
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You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside

You Find Mother Ourselves
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Love Liberty Power Ourselves
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Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Beautiful Discarded Impression Ourselves
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Live Long Caricatures Ourselves
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To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

God Power Cross Jesus christ
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Knowledge Obtain God Important
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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Love Longing Ourselves Lost
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