#ourselves

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#duty #just #just one #large #moral

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#being #come #love #more #once

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#duty #every #expect #glorious #islam

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#alone #anyway #because #being #being alone

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#everything #irritates #lead #others #ourselves

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it. ↗

— Terry Jones

#every #history #make #our #ourselves

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. ↗

— John Thorn

#employment #exile #extended #families #involuntary

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#cheapen #greatness #incumbent #our #ourselves

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can. ↗

— Charles Kelley

#great #lot #make #ourselves #possibly