#ourselves

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#ignore #know #love #love is #needs

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#anything #better #changed #child #could

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

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

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830) ↗

— William Hazlitt

#love #others #ourselves #power #love

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#oneness #others #ourselves #viewpoints #forgiveness

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 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

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ↗

— Joan Baez

#bring #compete #cry #getting #give