#elf

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. ↗

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#books

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#castle #self #books

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#unhappiness #universe

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#self-pity #dead

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#self-confidence #london

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#values

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#christmas

...the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#self-determination #values

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ↗