#selves

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#been #evils #extensively #faith #had

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#babies #been #even #ever #more

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves. ↗

— Luciano Berio

#evolve #find #forever #get #i

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#learn #ourselves #than

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq. ↗

— Kit Bond

#built #colleagues #democratic #insurgents #introducing

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#born #exist #know #ourselves

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#faults #most #our #ourselves

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#burden #cannot #enough #feelings #here

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. ↗

— David Remnick

#efficient #everybody #fast #i #i write

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#heroism #imbeciles #lack #lost #maintain