#ourselves

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#along #comes #every #five #hundred

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#how #no respect #our #ourselves #respect

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#accepting #consists #entire #entire life #our

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#get #like #more #neither #older

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bore #care #fights #hundred #lest

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ↗

— Plato

#deceive #earth #equal #god #however

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#education #just #laws #love #men

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#called #does #enemy #except #harm