#ourselves

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#consciousness #heroic #our #ourselves #own

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. ↗

— David Strathairn

#culture #film #learn #literature #our

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#make #ourselves #political #should #stand

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#other #ourselves #people #serving #way

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#based #christ #everything #how #humble

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ↗

— William Temple

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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ↗

— Mother Teresa

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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

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