#ourselves

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#human #literature #men #must #off

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#amateur #bit #charm #first #involve

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#friends #interpret #our #ourselves #take

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#difficult #first #honest #improve #lives

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 all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#best way #doing #doing good #gather #good

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#consciousness #heroic #our #ourselves #own

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#brothers #called #chicago #community #entire