#himself

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#come #condition #forth #him #himself

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. ↗

— Henry Morgan

#help #helps #himself #person #who

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. ↗

— Axel Munthe

#even #friends #himself #his #hope

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#himself #known #man #mistakes #wise

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#anger #angry #get #good #good loser

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#broken #care #communion #deeper #deeply

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here. ↗

— Kim Novak

#always #aviation #felt #got #here

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. ↗

— Novalis

#family #family life #far #fit #general

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

#adult #becomes #child #day #forgives

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. ↗

— George Osborne

#chancellor #closest #closest thing #ever #experience