#elf

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#change #dark #embrace #force #go

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish. ↗

— Sōseki Natsume

#life-and-living #living #observe #selfish #life

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#be-yourself #frienship #freedom

I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don't really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#course #find #good #hard #i

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#every #feel #give #go #i

You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#also #better #confident #feel #more

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#energy #exists #itself #love is #own

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#call #category #designer #great #great people

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#actually #build #computer #could #did