#selves

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry. ↗

— Paul Simon

#bandstand #called #dance #got #i

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#chains #comfort #death #die #even

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#born #families #into #know #make

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#again #burning #burning desire #desire #disappointment

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#business #find #know #life #living

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves. ↗

— Peter Singer

#children #concern #ethical #good #good people

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#counselors #distinguish #generally #leaders #person

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#aim #already #assuring #encourage #flattery

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#agents #best #men #must #nature

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#delight #discovery #love is #others #ourselves