#elf

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually. ↗

— Brian Eno

#course #doing #endlessly #i #know

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. ↗

— Epictetus

#adorn #first #know #then #who

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it. ↗

— Enya

#evolve #i #i do #into #melody

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. ↗

— Enya

#company #events #feel #i #intact

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. ↗

— Epictetus

#heaven #little #little things #practice #proceed

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. ↗

— Epicurus

#folly #gods #himself #man #obtain

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#how #inner #inner world #knowledge #my self

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better. ↗

— Barry Bonds

#i #looking #make #myself #never

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#choice #daughter #doing #even #expects

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not. ↗

— Diego Boneta

#friends #i #i think #important #important thing