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Sometimes we fall in love and end up losing ourselves. We allow ourselves to become different people. But we have choices, Lily. We can choose to find the person we used to be, the person we really are. Or we can continue on as this new being."

-Conall. ~ Chani Lynn Feener
Losing Ourselves quotes by Chani Lynn Feener
We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves. ~ Rand Paul
Losing Ourselves quotes by Rand Paul
The claims which the difficult work of love lays upon our development are more than life-sized, and as beginners we are not equal to them. But if we continue to hold out and take this love upon ourselves as a burden and apprenticeship, instead of losing ourselves in all the light and frivolous play behind which mankind have concealed themselves from the most serious gravity of their existence,-then perhaps some small progress and some alleviation will become perceptible to those who come long after us; that would be much. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Losing Ourselves quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
It's possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people's stories. ~ Nuruddin Farah
Losing Ourselves quotes by Nuruddin Farah
Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere inside there. But some of us get so much used to it that we start feeling peaceful in there and we start spending more time in it. One weird thing about darkness is, we meet ourselves there. Who are very different from what we are. And once we start speaking with them we become addicted to that kind of conversations. We fall in love with the same thing that we tried to run away from out whole life. ~ Akshay Vasu
Losing Ourselves quotes by Akshay Vasu
We borrow. We steal. We purchase what we need and buy what we don't. We acquire things, people, places, all in the process of losing ourselves. Busyness is the religion of distraction. I cannot talk to you, because I have too much to do. ~ Terry Tempest Williams
Losing Ourselves quotes by Terry Tempest Williams
We must, however, reflect on what is happening. It is an urgent matter, especially for those of us who still live in a meaningful, even a numinous, earth community. We have not spoken. Nor even have we seen clearly what is happening. The issue goes far beyond economics, or commerce, or poetics, or an evening of pleasantries as we look out over a scenic view. Something is happening beyond all this. We are losing splendind and intimate modes of divine presence. We are, perhaps, losing ourselves. ~ Thomas Berry
Losing Ourselves quotes by Thomas Berry
When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves. ~ Bud Harris
Losing Ourselves quotes by Bud Harris
[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art
novels, poems, plays, paintings or films
can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. ~ Alain De Botton
Losing Ourselves quotes by Alain De Botton
If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win. ~ Meg Collett
Losing Ourselves quotes by Meg Collett
Something escapes us, and we are escaping from ourselves, or losing ourselves, as part of an irreversible process; we have now passed some point of no return, the point where the contradictoriness of things ended, and we find ourselves, still alive, in a universe of non-contradiction, of enthusiasm, of ecstasy - of stupor in the face of a process which, for all its irreversibility, is bereft of meaning. ~ Jean Baudrillard
Losing Ourselves quotes by Jean Baudrillard
In the midst of your enemies, one should not lose his morality. Morality is what separates us from our enemy. Morals keep us from losing ourselves to our situations. ~ Trenton Quinn
Losing Ourselves quotes by Trenton Quinn
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves. ~ Paul Valery
Losing Ourselves quotes by Paul Valery
We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost. ~ John Banville
Losing Ourselves quotes by John Banville
I stepped in her face again and kissed her forehead. "I. Am. All. You. Have. Just as you are all I have - fuck Declan, Neal, Olivia, Coraline, even my parents. My family and loyalty start with you and you alone. The sooner you fucking realize that, the sooner we can get back to losing ourselves within each other and actually killing all those who stand against us. ~ J.J. McAvoy
Losing Ourselves quotes by J.J. McAvoy
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply? ~ Joshua Foer
Losing Ourselves quotes by Joshua Foer
Closeness to people may look like scary, mind-boggling business, but it doesn't have to be that scary. And it's not that difficult. It even feels good, when we relax and let it happen. It's okay to feel afraid of closeness and love, but it's also okay to allow ourselves to love and feel close to people. It's okay to give and receive love. We can make good decisions about who to love and when to do that. It's okay for us to be who we are around people. Take the risk of doing that. We can trust ourselves. We can go through the awkwardness and friction of initiating relationships. We can find people who are safe to trust. We can open up, become honest, and be who we are. We can even handle feeling hurt or rejected from time to time. We can love without losing ourselves or giving up our boundaries. We can love and think at the same time. We can take off our track shoes. ~ Melody Beattie
Losing Ourselves quotes by Melody Beattie
The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing ourselves in consideration of their imagined form. ~ Maggie Nelson
Losing Ourselves quotes by Maggie Nelson
Push too far into independence and we disconnect and hurt each other. Then in a longing for togetherness, we seek each other out; fumbling around for the warmth of the other. Push too far into intimacy and we get afraid of losing ourselves in it and head the other way. It is the ongoing interplay between independence and intimacy. ~ Donna Goddard
Losing Ourselves quotes by Donna Goddard
I admire you, and yet at times it seems to me as if you were deranged. Or is it not a sort of mental derangement that you subject to such a degree every passion, every emotion of the heart, every mood, to the cold discipline of reflection? Is it not mental derangement to be so normal, to be a mere idea, not a human being like the rest of us, pliant and yielding, capable of being lost and of losing ourselves? Is it not mental derangement to be always awake, always sure, never obscure and dreaming? ~ Søren Kierkegaard
Losing Ourselves quotes by Søren Kierkegaard
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the "luxuriousness" of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye. ~ Elfriede Jelinek
Losing Ourselves quotes by Elfriede Jelinek
Alas!' he writes, 'I am morbid,
And have put a purple colour about my brow.
All men seem eating and drinking the
"Joy of the Round Feast," while I am
Melancholy and silent, as though in a
Gloomy wood, astray.
Strange images of myself did I create,
As I gazed into the seeming pit of others,
Losing myself in the thoughtfulness
Of my unreal self, as humanity saw me.
But alas ! on entering to the consciousness
Of my real being to find fostering
"The all-prevailing woman,"
And I strayed with her, into the path direct.
"Hail! the Jewel in the Lotus. ~ Austin Osman Spare
Losing Ourselves quotes by Austin Osman Spare
How do we pick and choose where to get involved? Canada and other peacekeeping nations have become accustomed to acting if, and only if, international public opinion will support them - a dangerous path that leads to a moral relativism in which a country risks losing sight of the difference between good and evil, a concept that some players on the international stage view as outmoded. Some governments regard the use of force itself as the greatest evil. Others define "good" as the pursuit of human rights and will opt to employ force when human rights are violated. As the nineties drew to a close and the new millennium dawned with no sign of an end to these ugly little wars, it was as if each troubling conflict we were faced with had to pass the test of whether we could "care" about it or "identify" with the victims before we'd get involved. ~ Romeo Dallaire
Losing Ourselves quotes by Romeo Dallaire
Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign commerce" on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are never dreamers. To go upstairs in the word house, is to withdraw, step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream, it is losing oneself in the distant corridors of an obscure etymology, looking for treasures that cannot be found in words. To mount and descend in the words themselves - this is a poet's life. To mount too high or descend too low, is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together. ~ Gaston Bachelard
Losing Ourselves quotes by Gaston Bachelard
I'm not going to apologize for what I do anymore, and I'm not going to be afraid of losing your love or approval. ~ Jennifer Estep
Losing Ourselves quotes by Jennifer Estep
I loved him. I loved this man so much that losing him was going to break my cold, dead heart into so many pieces I was just going to have to stick them in the same box I kept my dreams and carry it around with me forever. ~ Mariana Zapata
Losing Ourselves quotes by Mariana Zapata
Ninety-five percent of the trading errors you are likely to make - causing the money to just evaporate before your eyes - will stem from your attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table. What I call the four primary trading fears. ~ Mark Douglas
Losing Ourselves quotes by Mark Douglas
I learned that my boom box was awesome at recording, but I didn't know my soul was also good at it and that my heart would remember all the things that would ever break it. Most recordings have a way of fading over time and losing their quality, but the moments that become the record our souls keep manage to stay so vivid. ~ Amena Brown
Losing Ourselves quotes by Amena Brown
If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing. ~ Robert Kiyosaki
Losing Ourselves quotes by Robert Kiyosaki
You have to be careful who you give pieces of yourself to, because even a little bit here and there adds up to a hell of a lot eventually, and It's not worth it, losing yourself to them, giving yourself to people who don't give a fuck about you. You keep pouring yourself into other people and you'll just wind up empty. ~ J.M. Darhower
Losing Ourselves quotes by J.M. Darhower
It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one. ~ Cara Bertoia
Losing Ourselves quotes by Cara Bertoia
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. ~ Nicholas Sparks
Losing Ourselves quotes by Nicholas Sparks
Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval. ~ Martha Beck
Losing Ourselves quotes by Martha Beck
You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down. ~ Lamar Odom
Losing Ourselves quotes by Lamar Odom
We're like the hands of a clock...chasing and escaping each other, losing and finding each other, around and around, again and again, joined way down at the root, no matter how far apart. ~ Ben Dolnick
Losing Ourselves quotes by Ben Dolnick
Every day there is a war inside your mind: A war between you and yourself! One side of you may defeat the other side of you! But you must know that your winning side might fail in the real world! Always be ready to give a chance immediately to your losing side, to your defeated idea! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Losing Ourselves quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley
Losing Ourselves quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley
Love is the one thing in this world worth taking a risk for. When you're older and you look back on the life you lived, you won't regret the fact that you took the chance to love someone. But you will regret the chances on love you didn't take. Especially the ones rooted in fear. They're only scary because you have the most to lose. You feel the most for them. Don't let the fear of losing love stop you from having the experience altogether. ~ J. Sterling
Losing Ourselves quotes by J. Sterling
Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base. ~ David Maraniss
Losing Ourselves quotes by David Maraniss
Worse than losing the potential of Nick as a boyfriend is losing the real Nick as my best friend. ~ Jessica Love
Losing Ourselves quotes by Jessica Love
Ain't nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby - ~ Andrew Galasetti
Losing Ourselves quotes by Andrew Galasetti
Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier. ~ Alexa Von Tobel
Losing Ourselves quotes by Alexa Von Tobel
I have come to judge a good story as one that makes me feel as if I'm losing a friend when I read the final page, close the book, and put it down for the last time. ~ Tom Ryan
Losing Ourselves quotes by Tom Ryan
When Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!
-Kate's thoughts ~ Julia Quinn
Losing Ourselves quotes by Julia Quinn
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life,which in the end we leave,only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness. ~ Omar Khayyam
Losing Ourselves quotes by Omar Khayyam
The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it. ~ Wilhelm Steinitz
Losing Ourselves quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz
The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth. ~ Richard Tol
Losing Ourselves quotes by Richard Tol
You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation. ~ Dalai Lama
Losing Ourselves quotes by Dalai Lama
My sense of being, my identity, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't reside in my parts. It lives in my past, and in the continuity of my present thoughts, and in my hopes for the future. I'm more afraid of losing a memory than a limb. ~ Josiah Bancroft
Losing Ourselves quotes by Josiah Bancroft
I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about ~ B.J. Penn
Losing Ourselves quotes by B.J. Penn
A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night-watch is mustered. There is one less to take the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss. ~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Losing Ourselves quotes by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Yet where lies the line between compromise and surrender? Between relinquishing the ideal of perfection on the one hand, and losing one's integrity on the other? ~ Susan Maushart
Losing Ourselves quotes by Susan Maushart
When I think about the past and how blind I was in that life, I compare it to being a god and losing everything when being cast out. I had the unlimited power to destroy myself and everything around me. It's like having been in a cave for years and I'm finally out of the cave. The sun burns my eyes and skin. I don't recognize my surroundings. No one looks authentic, and now I'm on the hunt for people that have the pieces to my puzzle that will help me on my quest. I have no cave to hide in, and I'm just left with the sediment of a previous life and my own mortality. ~ Phil Volatile
Losing Ourselves quotes by Phil Volatile
Happiness would come, Harry thought, but at the moment it was muffled by exhaustion, and the pain of losing Fred and Lupin and Tonks pierced him like a physical wound every few steps. Most of all he felt the most stupendous relief, and a longing to sleep. But first he owed an explanation to Ron and Hermione, who had stuck with him for so long, and who deserved the truth. Painstakingly he recounted what he had seen in the Pensieve and what had happened in the forest, and they had not even begun to express all their shock and amazement what at last they arrived at the place to which they had been walking, though none of them had mentioned their destination. ~ J.K. Rowling
Losing Ourselves quotes by J.K. Rowling
Tried to forget me. You'll think of me every time you see clouds ~ Jordan Hoechlin
Losing Ourselves quotes by Jordan Hoechlin
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. ~ Raoul Vaneigem
Losing Ourselves quotes by Raoul Vaneigem
I loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore. ~ Nikki Rowe
Losing Ourselves quotes by Nikki Rowe
I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am"
"Unbelievable," I said in disgust.
"What's unbelievable?"
"Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of ... of hubris! ~ Lisa Kleypas
Losing Ourselves quotes by Lisa Kleypas
I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. ~ Yvon Chouinard
Losing Ourselves quotes by Yvon Chouinard
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. ~ Malcolm X
Losing Ourselves quotes by Malcolm X
The pain of losing them once you have sealed them into your heart is hardly worth the pleasure of holding them to begin with. ~ Anna Jane Greenville
Losing Ourselves quotes by Anna Jane Greenville
I'm renowned within the ton as being cool under fire- around you, I'm never cool. I'm heated- I seethe- I burn with desire. If I'm in the same room, all I can think about is heat- your heat- and how you'll feel around me."
Patience felt the heat rise, a real force between them.
"I've gained the reputation of being the soul of discretion- now look at me. I've seduced my godmother's niece- and been seduced by her. I share her bed openly, even under my godmother's roof." His lips twisted wryly. "So much for discretion."
He drew a deep breath; his chest brushed her breasts.
"And as for my vaunted, up-until-you 'legendary' control- the instant I'm inside you that evaporates like water on hot steel."
What prompted her Patience never knew. His lips were so close- with her teeth, she nipped the lower. "I told you to let go- I won't break."
The tension, pouring off him in waves, eased, just a little. He sighed, and rested his forehead on hers. "I don't like losing control- it's like losing myself- in you."
She felt him gather himself, felt the tension swell and coalesce about them.
"It's giving myself to you- so that I'm in your keeping."
The words, low and gravelly, rolled through her; closing her eyes, she drew in a shallow breath. "And you don't like doing that."
"I don't like it- but I crave it. I don't approve of it, yet I yearn for it." His words feathered her cheek, then his lips touched hers. "Do you understand? I haven't any ~ Stephanie Laurens
Losing Ourselves quotes by Stephanie Laurens
I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave. ~ Scotty McCreery
Losing Ourselves quotes by Scotty McCreery
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