#elf

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#comparison #get #i #inevitable #interested

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

#accomplish #develop #hunger #our dreams #responsibility

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#aging #care #fight #good #i

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#different #different roles #doing #excitement #left

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#i #like #myself #something #stretch

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#capabilities #challenges #confident #face #faced

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#being #false #feel #felt #guilt

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved. ↗

— Greg Lake

#because #biggest #biggest lesson #fun #i