#ourselve

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. ↗

— George H. Mead

#interests #nation #our #ourselves #primal

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#find #fit #image #love #love is

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

#crossed #dipped #door #fingers #holy

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about? ↗

— Liam Neeson

#ask #catholic #consciously #day #doing

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#conventional #freeing #ourselves #releasing #society

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#cut #limit #ourselves #set #vital

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#how #neighbor #our #ourselves #same

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#century #challenge #change #climate #climate change

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. ↗

— Martin Luther

#ourselves #permitting #see #seized #things

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way. ↗

— William James

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