Beruhigen / Soothe Ermutigen / Encourage Gebildet / Formed Meinung / Opinion Schmeichelei / Flattery Über / About Uns / Us Uns selbst / Ourselves Wahrheit / Truth Ziel / Aim
We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.
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.
