#ourselve

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#get #grow #like #more #neither

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves. ↗

— John Jewel

#know #mind #ourselves #us #word

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#band #black #black sabbath #considered #fun

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#few #ourselves #problems #solve #together

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#first #god #our #ourselves #responsibility

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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