#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

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#may #need #ourselves #place #which

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

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eternity #literature #literature-quotes #long-ago

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #geniuses #literature #literature-quotes #ourselves

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us? ↗

— Boyle Roche

#done #ever #our #ourselves #out

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#best #essentially #ourselves #remain #same

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#friends #interpret #our #ourselves #take

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

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

— Bernard Baruch

#get #grow #like #more #neither