#ourselve

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on. ↗

— Mary Richards

#each #endure #faith #help #helps

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#black #easier #female #feminism #gifts

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#gotta #keep #makes #need #ourselves

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#concerned #exclusively #good #others #ourselves

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#how #no respect #our #ourselves #respect

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

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#education #just #laws #love #men

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

— Francis Bacon

#hating #loving #neighbors #our #ourselves