#selves

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

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#each #every #every time #fact #fighting

So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#only-me #people #walls #worlds #worry

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#bankrupt #ourselves #search #security #vain

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

#endeavor #excel #excellent #most #should

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#became #been #characters #child #either

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #been #obvious #ourselves #really

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops. ↗

— Rob Walton

#business #business people #comic #comic book #comment

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Vera Wang

#against #although #always #anyone #better

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#audience #find #themselves #without