#ourselves

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ↗

— Buddha

#anger #begun #ceased #controversy #feel

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#death #die #drag #final #itself

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#distrust #make #ourselves #parents #seem

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do. ↗

— Mary Richards

#inhabit #may #ourselves #want

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that? ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#ask #going #good #lousy #ourselves

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#ourselves #stories #telling

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#because #best #between #block #blocks

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? ↗

— Joy Adamson

#brain #creatures #enough #fellow #fellow creatures

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves. ↗

— Edmund Gibson

#blessings #descend #evoke #ourselves #upon

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#capable #doing #done #feel #judge