#selves

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

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The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

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I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell. ↗

— Paula Danziger

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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ↗

— William Davenant

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. ↗

— Bette Davis

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I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. ↗

— Les Dawson

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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

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Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. ↗

— Dogen

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