#ourselves

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#against #born #claim #connection #despite

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#endeavor #let us #live #others #ourselves

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves

As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#anything #arenas #audience #clubs #front

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#how #intelligent #intelligent life #into #life

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children. ↗

— Jon Kyl

#leadership #leaving #means #our #ourselves

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aspects #being #brings #broadened #consciousness

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#create #exist #fail #failure #i

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ↗

— Albert Pike

#alone #dies #done #immortal #others

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates ↗

— Socrates

#introspection #ourselves #psyche #self-awareness #introspection