#ourselve

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ↗

— Buddha

#anger #begun #ceased #controversy #feel

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#find #finding #only #our #ourselves

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#apart #around #because #cheap #could

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously. ↗

— Drew Carey

#helps #never #never take #our #ourselves

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#expect #forever #government #level #ourselves

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves. ↗

— Julian Castro

#could #dream #dreamed #dreams #long

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another man #arrogance #commonplace #conceit #dark

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#focusing #going #got #hurricane #i

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. ↗

— Garth Stein

#creators #destiny #failures #ignorance #intention