#elves

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#backgrounds #black #certainly #lose #museum

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #despair #human #human beings #humanity

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#only #selves #space #time #world

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#because #being #doing #explain #fans

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#equal #importance #least #only #parents

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. ↗

— Anatole France

#best #people #reproach #subject #talking

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#ourselves #shouts #throng #triumph