#ourselves

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want. ↗

— Nelson Boswell

#find #must #ourselves #out #really

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#business #drink #drunk #get #heartless

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

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#course #first #might #nothing #occupy

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#determined #give #meanings #ourselves #situations

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

#ourselves #part #pay

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others. ↗

— June Singer

#first #half #interaction #life #mainly

There are two different ways of being a person. One of these precedes the change of heart, and the other follows it. The first is fearful, anxious, resentful, and alienated from other people; the second, open resonant with others, buoyant, straightforward, and secure. To the extent that we live the second way, we care about others. We do not see them merely in terms of our own interests, as helping or hindering us. They are real to us; we are as sensitive to their feelings and hopes and needs as we are to our own. On the other hand, when we feel alienated, we engross ourselves in our own agenda. We pursue wealth, power, personal perfection, pleasure, distraction, or some other protection from emotional pain. We divide people into two categories-- those who will help us in our self-seeking projects and those who won't, and the latter we fear or hate as our rivals or enemies. We use people or abuse them. We look at people guardedly and stand ready to resent them whenever they cross us. Their own hopes and needs aren't real to us. ↗

— C. Terry Warner

#change