#elf

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#general #only #selfishness #thin #veneer

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. ↗

— Hugo Hamilton

#growth #identity #self-discovery #self-discovery

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. ↗

— John James Audubon

#deepest #forests #frequently #i #me

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. ↗

— John James Audubon

#constantly #deck #exercise #forcing #however

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#best #best way #forget #look #love

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#creative #dead #her #herself #human

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#aspiration #aspires #compares #estimates #higher

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#himself #lives #universe #who

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #because #cure #forgiven #hope