#ourselve

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

— Jeremy Collier

#books #burden #keep #our #ourselves

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

— Bette Davis

#knows #maybe #movie #movie stars #ourselves

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

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#know #never #ourselves #really #stupidity

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#bitter #cosmic #destroy #due #imagination

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#because #become #deplorable #each #especially

I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#dad #family #focus #glad #great

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ↗

— Jane Porter

#candles #depriving #flame #imparting #knowledge

I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#fiscal #footing #get #group #i

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#administrative #color #course #fire #fit