#elf

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#complete #easier #else #live #someone

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dead #die #everyone #going #himself

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die. ↗

— Kate Bush

#before #die #done #first #i

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture. ↗

— Dan Butler

#being #camps #comes #danger #different

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#different people #had #i #lot #myself

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #care #cool #due #further

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#himself #man #manner #temper #tone

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#asks #doubt #guide #hence #him