#ourselve

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ↗

— Plato

#deceive #earth #equal #god #however

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#called #does #enemy #except #harm

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hating #loving #neighbors #our #ourselves

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. ↗

— Richard Bach

#chosen #events #go #how #learn

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#humanity #identify #long #modes #ourselves

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? ↗

— Abigail Adams

#mankind #ourselves #out #serve #service

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. ↗

— Aesop

#both #commit #either #every #look

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#boredom #hold #into #knots #laziness

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#driven #game #get #happens #matter

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#conceit #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #measure