#selves

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#be happy #god #happy #make #merely

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bodies #constantly #find #hard #our

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#how #interests #me #people #perceive

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#begins #ceases #clothing #constitute #fruits

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#around #atmosphere #earth #human #level

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#bestow #contempt #deserve #insolence #none

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

#carving #column #construction #cutting #each

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#for the people #government #intelligence #interest #justice

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren. ↗

— Howard Coble

#american #american families #believe #children #diligently

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. ↗

— Roy Cohn

#defeat #get #how #i #out