We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
Dorothy Day

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Jose Marti

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Cat Stevens

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
Cat Stevens

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

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
Bill Watterson

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Bill Watterson

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Joseph Conrad

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Yoko Ono

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Yoko Ono

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
George Matthew Adams