#ourselves

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#anyone #cent #comes #complete #else

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#deceive #displease #entertain #esteem #few

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#everything #grow #into #others #ourselves

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#depends #judge #life #men #our

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#risk #truth #world #you #yourselves

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #chance #dignitaries #find #formerly

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#american dream #brand #dream #europe #fashion

We call ourselves creators and we just copy. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#copy #creators #just #ourselves