#selves

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. ↗

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves. ↗

— John Avlon

#back #both #debate #define #extremes

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#make #our #ourselves #same #those

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves. ↗

— Edward Bach

#assured #best #contains #development #evolution

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#cannot #content #fitting #fitting in #ideas

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#directions #except #experience #forth #give

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#money #more #people #pets #really

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ↗

— Zane Grey

#higher #may #men #rise #selves

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ↗