#selves

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#another #color #exist #generation #history

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#circumstances #instead #letting #meant #often

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about? ↗

— Liam Neeson

#ask #catholic #consciously #day #doing

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#care #government #i #i believe #i believe in

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#conventional #freeing #ourselves #releasing #society

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#go #matter #modern #most #outside

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#everybody #i #i believe #responsible #themselves

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. ↗

— Edward Irving

#fearful #i #ignorance #most #omen

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#create #disadvantage #every #irresistible #minds

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. ↗

— Washington Irving

#effected #enemy #harm #least #most