#ourselves

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#drawn #effectively #experiences #hatred #however

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. ↗

— Alice Walker

#deeply #i #i love #incredibly #insanely

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anyway #become #been #beginning #figured

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' ↗

— Lao Tzu

#best #did #done #leader #ourselves

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #hands #himself

What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me? ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#am #because #get #got #hear

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#artists #become #clerks #connects #declare

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#believe #better #children #expect #our

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#always #around #attention #dead #everything

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#anything #call #cannot #existence #feeling