#ourselve

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#doctrine #guilt #make #nothing #ourselves

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#focus #focused #horribly #impossible #lot

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#catholic #catholic church #church #creed #dogma

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#each #i #just #only #other

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us. ↗

— Roger Sherman

#gave #him #himself #let us #live

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure. ↗

— Carly Simon

#deny #now #ourselves #period #physically

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#better #clearly #condition #create #find

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#chains #comfort #death #die #even

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#business #find #know #life #living