#ourselves

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#based #christ #everything #how #humble

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ↗

— William Temple

#arrows #back #believe #between #complaints

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#doing #drop #feel #just #less

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#events #find #happen #lives #order

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be. ↗

— John Astin

#believe #better #better off #change #damaged

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#basic #basic research #learn #ourselves #research

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#become #cause #cited #could #doctrine

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #american revolution #around #came #concept