#ourselves

No one can disgrace us but ourselves. ↗

— Josh Billings

#ourselves #us

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#came #could #day #govern #i

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#benefit #doing #exercising #giving #going

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#destruction #elect #let us #must #ourselves

I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#consider #course #did #feminists #four

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#be happy #eager #evolve #feel #grow

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. ↗

— Patty Duke

#best #forgive #forgiving #get #layer

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#best part #center #city #forever #hearts

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#mortals #ourselves #ruled