#ourselves

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#above #effort #lifts #made #others

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#family #family life #i #i think #interested

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#egos #into #more #our #ourselves

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew. ↗

— Demi Moore

#goes #having #measure #nice #nice things

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#aware #because #destructive #environment #fragile

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#bind #often #ourselves #rather #than

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#belong #contradictions #each #european #european union

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. ↗

— John Oates

#other #ourselves #people #together #work

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves. ↗

— Brandon Thomas

#big #done #even #finger #just

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. ↗

— Alice Walker

#deeply #i #i love #incredibly #insanely