#ourselves

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. ↗

— John Williams

#ephemeral #even #forgotten #gratifying #linger

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#everyone #freedom #frontiers #inside #mean

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#before #british #cannot #conscience #decided

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. ↗

— Judith Wright

#deeper #get #gratification #instant #instant gratification

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#determines #emerges #emotional #field #given

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#been #begin #book #each #exists

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. ↗

— Paul Graham

#conservative #customers #explain #most #ourselves

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ↗

— Graham Greene

#always #bell #calls #dumb #guard

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#always #any #backlash #believe #criticised