#ourselve

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#inflict #mental #never #nightmare #ourselves

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#free #insane #laugh #learning #lies

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #constant #deeper #evasion #feelings

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#committed #germany #iraq #ourselves #send

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#always #cruelty #others #ourselves #towards

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves. ↗

— Glenn Close

#protect #vulnerable

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#even #ourselves #trendy

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. ↗

— Paul Valery

#before #flesh #long #made #must

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

#comes #everything #existence #happiness #life

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#always #believe #consistent #manner #our