#ourselves

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. ↗

— David Strathairn

#culture #film #learn #literature #our

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. ↗

— Madame Swetchine

#fancy #far #more #needs #only

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#ask #attacks #defend #must #ourselves

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#because #brains #effort #explain #how

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#leave #ourselves #touch #traces #whatever

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

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

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#birth #death #did #guests #may

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#america #came #i #i came #ourselves