#ourselves

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #expectations #free #give #great

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. ↗

— Prince Philip

#come #enjoying #health #other #our

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discover #journey #must #ourselves #over it

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deciding #each #exists #gone #government

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#easy #elsewhere #find #ourselves #possible

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#honey #kindness #ourselves #sting #unkindness

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#act #beings #determine #events #future