#ourselve

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#belong #determines #honest #how #kind

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ↗

— William Davenant

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#circle #compassion #creatures #embrace #free

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#among #ancient #beach #disturbs #every

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#feel #insecurity #must #ourselves #secure

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#know #never #ourselves #really #stupidity

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#bitter #cosmic #destroy #due #imagination

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#begun #consider #future #government #including

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#humble #hypocrites #our #ourselves #proud