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Ourselves Quotes (page 57)

We dressed ourselves up as Gauguin pictures and careered round Crosby Hall. Mrs. Whitehead was scandalized. She said that Vanessa and I were practically naked. My mother's ghost was invoked once more...to deplore the fact that I had taken a house in Brunswick Square and had asked young men to share it...Stories began to circulate about parties at which we all undressed in public. Logan Pearsall Smith told Ethel Sands that he knew for a fact that Maynard had copulated with Vanessa on a sofa in... Virginia Woolf
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote: "Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply..."
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. Franz Kafka
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open. Shakti Gawain
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blaise Pascal quote: "Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the..."
Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God Blaise Pascal
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. William Shakespeare
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also. William Blake
Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no matter what they are, no matter what they do, then those of us who love particular people for particular reasons had better find ourselves a new word." He looked at an oil painting of his deceased wife. "For instance- I loved her more than I love our garbage collector, which makes me guilty of the most unspeakable of modern crimes: Dis-crim-i-nay-tion. Kurt Vonnegut
As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Geri Halliwell quote: "It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don't take life..."
It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don't take life too seriously. Geri Halliwell
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations. Jose Saramago
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Agnes Repplier quote: "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible..."
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier

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