#ourselves

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#aligning #god #ourselves #prayer #purposes

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#i #obsession #ourselves #owe #society

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#being #coming #culture #deeper #dig

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cannot #first #forget #had #history

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole. ↗

— Harry Reid

#dug #found #get #hole #i

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#find #learn #nothing #others #ourselves

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#burden #cannot #enough #feelings #here

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#especially #flaws #must #our #ourselves

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#fault #faultless #find #much #others

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#life #others #ourselves #quite #supporting