#elf

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#capable #create #creation #does #fabulously

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#drawings #express #fashion #had #i

Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you read asks you to move outside of yourself and your own experience to consider the lives of others. So I can't identify a particular book that altered my life, but I do know that the act of reading has pushed me to engage more deeply with the world (real and imagined), and I'm grateful for that. ↗

— Ethan Rutherford

#shelf-awareness #change

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. ↗

— David Gerrold

#bizarre #course #enjoy #gets #interesting

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it. ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#ever #everything #gift #gives #good

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#been #critical #film #i #me

I was never less alone than when by myself. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#i #less #myself #never #than

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does! ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#does #else #everyone #humor #i

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#emotions #energy-healing #enlightenment #god #higher-self

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#mom #over #scholar #self-taught #years