#elf

Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#stephen-richards-self-help #thoughtful #thoughts #thoughts-are-gardens #thoughts-of-the-mind

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#available #does #dying #even #former

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#does #link #merely #new #oneself

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#craft #divorce #film #going #hard

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#convince #open #others #seem #would

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. ↗

— David Chalmers

#complete #consciousness #down #except #fact

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#crucified #every #every man #himself #man

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. ↗

— Iris Chang

#duty #else #first #please #towards

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#driving #evidence #excel #faith #getting

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. ↗

— George Chapman

#himself #indeed #king #law #need