#ourselves

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#happiness #only #ourselves #purpose #squandering

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#effectively #love #masquerading #ourselves #violence

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#enslavement #entails #free #freedom #must

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#everything #irritates #lead #others #ourselves

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it. ↗

— Terry Jones

#every #history #make #our #ourselves

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. ↗

— John Thorn

#employment #exile #extended #families #involuntary

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#because #catharsis #emotion #even #experience

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#else #everything #facade #give #leeway

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#fans #going #hate #just #laugh

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#comes #darfur #matters #might #more