#elf

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-delusion #fool

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#rebellion

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#self-reliance #mankind

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#down #edit #everything #get #hits

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#self-awareness #self-control #ego

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#silence

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#government #greed #national-troubles #problems #problems-in-the-world

If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can receive." He spread his arms wide. "If you were writing songs with it, you'd be holed up in your room in the middle of the night, scribbling them in a notebook and feeling self-important. You'd think you were getting it out, but really you'd be keeping it inside and quiet. You'd take what upset you and turn it into art, and now it would fester, because you think other people ought to share your outrage at what happened to you. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#energy #feeling #giving-and-receiving #outrage #sam

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#self-sabotage #art

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all. ↗

— John Hughes

#freaks #normalcy #bizarre