#selves

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#count #handful #money #ourselves #people

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find. ↗

— James A. Michener

#fail #find #journey #make #matter

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#either #inherent #means #pain #pleasure

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#aspects #culture #good #our #ourselves

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all. ↗

— James MacArthur

#celebrities #complain #declare #drop #having

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#even #generosity #how #i #knew

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#anyone #ever #existence #i #most