To see ourselves as others see us!

What are we, if not what we see in another.

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.

We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

When I see myself, I wonder: what do others try to see in themselves?

We resemble ourselves.

We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold.

But the point is, now, at this moment, or at any moment, we're only a cross-section of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us -- the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.