#ourselves

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#ourselves #responsible #ultimately

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves. ↗

— Derek Landy

#lying-to-ourselves #self-deception #telling-lies #death

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#away #balance #give #how #moments

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves. ↗

— George William Norris

#done #example #follow #ought #ourselves

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#fool #more #ourselves #should #teams

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be. ↗

— Judith Light

#instead #into #meant #meant to be #ourselves

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#assuredly #especially #go #god #his

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#amongst #answer #approach #author #cannot

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #debt #distressed #mind #misery

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#because #been #fear #i #i write