#elf

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character. ↗

— Ving Rhames

#approach #autobiography #character #character actor #consider

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#day #end #end of the day #face #man

Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#because #change #fighting #forgotten #got

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#advantages #allows #any #being #consider

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#envies #far #fast #fears #light

We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#energy #lose #more #something #than

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that? ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#did #i #look #myself #pinch

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity