#ourselves

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#even #know #lives #others #ourselves

Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#because #believe #bond #call #care

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#decided #domestic #fellow #how #know

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#future #had #invent #live #lost

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

— Jeremy Collier

#books #burden #keep #our #ourselves

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#contrary #examine #inward #men #ourselves

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ↗

— William Davenant

#glass #know #ourselves #perfect #see

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

— Bette Davis

#knows #maybe #movie #movie stars #ourselves

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