#ourselves

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. ↗

— Albert Camus

#advantage #always #deceive #disadvantage #first

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#also #always #birth #cloudy #consciences

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves. ↗

— Julian Castro

#could #dream #dreamed #dreams #long

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another man #arrogance #commonplace #conceit #dark

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#focusing #going #got #hurricane #i

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits

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

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#believe #imagine #others #ourselves #readily

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#aim #certain #deep #every #firm