#selves

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#even #know #lives #others #ourselves

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#dictatorship #heart #house #king #least

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball. ↗

— Barry Bonds

#baseball #care #how #know #life

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#enriches #everything #find #finding #get

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#cities #like #night #reveal #themselves

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. ↗

— Ralph Bunche

#firm resolve #gear #hard #make #must

The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves. ↗

— Jo Durie

#comes #court #down #like #out

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#class #considered #creature #harmless #hurt

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. ↗

— Irwin Edman

#created #largely #least #myth #standardized