#ourselves

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ↗

— Ted Shawn

#dance #made #only #ourselves #stuff

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#far #highly #how #how far #humility

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ↗

— Socrates

#around #comes #each #how #life

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#change #escape #gain #lose #mark

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves. ↗

— Matt Stone

#high school #immature #keep #kind #like

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. ↗

— U Thant

#deserves #each #even #every #human

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#better #crisis #difficult #duty #end

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#endurance #especially #fully #level #never

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#close #dangerously #everything #find #nothing