#ours

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#back #brought #carry #cheerfully #child

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#almost #any #author #beat #book

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#build #century #city #course #design

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #cannot #especially #nature #observe

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#convinced #hate #i #i am #love

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge. ↗

— Judith Light

#find #judge #model #others #patience

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#any #bedding #before #colder #dawn

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#boot #enough #hard #just #long

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#consult #doing #effectually #help #help others