#ourselve

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves. ↗

— Richard Burr

#against #also #although #appear #attractive

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#best #enough #ever #good #nothing

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#act #expecting #father #find #his

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#live #others #ourselves #planet #small

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#anymore #backgrounds #believe #children #clever

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#in fact #looking #ourselves #stable #very

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#happiness #happy #how #make #may

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog? ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#apparently #brian #bus #buses #could

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#mortals #ourselves #ruled

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most