#selves

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#happiness #life #loved #ourselves #rather

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#fallen #hero #heroic #heroism #impossible

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#everything #famous #nothing #others #people

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#ethnic #largely #ourselves #racial #terms

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #either #hang #human #human beings

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#business #confirm #fact #facts #harmonize

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#get #left #right #themselves #things

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#ask #clean #clean air #got #how

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#about #buried #decency #get #healthy