#ourselves

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. ↗

— Ethel Percy Andrus

#besides #direct #drives #happiness #inner

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. ↗

— Jane Addams

#good #incorporated #into #life #our

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ↗

— Anatole France

#another #before #behind #changes #die

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ↗

— Don Herold

#killing #knowing #not knowing #ourselves #unhappiness

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#change #changes #fear #form #i

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we? ↗

— April Winchell

#get #ourselves #playing #shall #stop

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#average #day #deeper #done #down

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

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