#ourselves

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#anyone #ever #existence #i #most

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#back #constitutional #effective #europe #force

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#last #need #ourselves #rather #than

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#better #everybody #face #friends #good

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#get #give #giving #harvest #more

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#control #destiny #fail #long #make

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#action #always #best #better #get

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#even #fear #fearsome #godlike #know

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#backwards #course #evolutionary #existence #go