#ourselves

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#give #home #involves #kind #leaving

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#beaten #dodging #few #getting #guys

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#female #had #main #now #ourselves

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#deep #into #ourselves #over #ruts

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. ↗

— Buddha

#must #ourselves #path #saves #us

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#life #ourselves #prefer #seriously #take

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angels #culture #high #higher #i

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#misconception #must #others #ourselves #read

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#fragmentary #god #incomplete #ourselves #understand

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#did #hope #human #human beings #interested