#himself

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#consciousness #consumption #discarded #even #everything

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#danger #exposes #himself #more #person

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#harder #himself #overcome #striving #than

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

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#finger #fingers #four #himself #his

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