#ourselves

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#far #highly #how #how far #humility

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discover #journey #must #ourselves #over it

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ↗

— Sophocles

#cause #keenest #our #ourselves #recognize

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deciding #each #exists #gone #government

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#easy #elsewhere #find #ourselves #possible

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cannot #everyone #frozen #get #into

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#after #appetites #envied #fit #found

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ↗

— Ted Shawn

#dance #made #only #ourselves #stuff