#ourselve

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#bodies #hit #keeping #occupy #off

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. ↗

— David R. Brower

#door #economy #expose #horrifying #once

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. ↗

— Brian Eno

#composers #experience #find #increasingly #likely

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#beasts #country #daily #dangerous #death

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#delight #delivered #devouring #ourselves #we cannot

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown. ↗

— William Booth

#cross #crown #else #must #our

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy. ↗

— Tom Brady

#dad #day #end #end of the day #experiences

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves. ↗

— Zach Braff

#drawn #i #i think #lot #ourselves

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

— David Foster Wallace

#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most