#ourselves

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#best #counsel #divine #excellent #foundation

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#belong #determines #honest #how #kind

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

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#contrary #examine #inward #men #ourselves

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ↗

— William Davenant

#glass #know #ourselves #perfect #see

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#circle #compassion #creatures #embrace #free

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#feel #insecurity #must #ourselves #secure