#hers

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #had #invent #inventing #invents

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#because #brothers #civil #civil wars #men

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#faults #had #less #others #our

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#followed #gave #generally #good #good advice

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#back #come #continually #contrivance #deal

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#eventually #fear #hate #hater #others

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#character #countenance #decision #detected #easily

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. ↗

— Steve Case

#brothers #building #expectation #fascinated #father

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

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