#ourselve

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#become #know #love #never #ourselves

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#aim #barely #best #did #done

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen. ↗

— Sergei Udaltsov

#defend #destroy #full #happen #later

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#got #organize #stop #you #yourselves

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen. ↗

— James Buchan

#generally #ourselves #seen #write

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#better #dead #discover #had #know

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#expect #forever #government #level #ourselves

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#also #always #birth #cloudy #consciences