#elf

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#any #beautiful #difficulty #like #looking

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#another #before #hoping #i #i am

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#around #dangerous #get #happened #itself

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. ↗

— James W. Black

#attitudes #baptist #beginning #born #both

Beauty's only skin deep. Everybody has ugly days. We're all made of the same stuff underneath. Acting right is better than looking right. Realize what make you special beyond looks. Evil can look pretty on the outside. ↗

— Shannon Delany

#self-image #beauty

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated. (11) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#different #joy #self #self-care #self-esteem

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#begin #believe #entire #entire life #having

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#challenges #discover #knew #make #never

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#done #even #films #hollywood #hollywood films

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Ian Botham

#capable #difficult #end #end of the tunnel #good