#ourselve

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#country #families #let us #more #only

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.' ↗

— Phil Collins

#first #gabriel #genesis #i #instrumentals

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#brings #compassion #moment #ourselves #rise

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#edge #getting #into #just #kinda

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#give #great #keep #natural #natural rights

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#appears #bit #chances #democracy #depend

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#brought #country #how #i #live