#ourselves

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#also #always #birth #cloudy #consciences

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attack #attacks #attempted #back #because

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves. ↗

— Glenn Close

#protect #vulnerable

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#even #ourselves #trendy

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

#comes #everything #existence #happiness #life

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#always #believe #consistent #manner #our

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. ↗

— Clarence Day

#fact #first #grand #her #mastery