#elf

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free. ↗

— Isabel Lopez

#forgiving #letting-go #pain #resentment #setting-yourself-free

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. ↗

— Otto Dix

#depths #experience #ghastly #i #life

I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular. ↗

— Donna Dixon

#become #body #good #hard #how

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#i #know #know yourself #me #surprise

The right name is an advertisement in itself. ↗

— Claude C. Hopkins

#itself #name #right

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ↗

— John Donne

#entire #every #every man #island #itself

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. ↗

— Rita Dove

#back #became #childhood #come #first

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#could #fantasy #i #i think #jewish

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero. ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

#acting #always #art #been #being