#selves

No one can disgrace us but ourselves. ↗

— Josh Billings

#ourselves #us

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#came #could #day #govern #i

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#benefit #doing #exercising #giving #going

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#destruction #elect #let us #must #ourselves

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth? ↗

— Mark Bittman

#even #feed #filth #fish #itself

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#cheek #cloak #give #go #injustice

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#break #impossible #law #only #ourselves

I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#anything #area #bar #beach #because

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. ↗

— Indra Devi

#constant #fear #free #freedom #loneliness

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#chance #fighter #fighters #found #had