#elf

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#anti-semitism #envy #i #myself #think

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. ↗

— David Eddings

#boss #christmas #day #every #every day

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#done #jokes #laugh #most #own

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#cat #eighty #i #imagine #kind

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#make #matter #matters #miserable #over

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#done #kindness #more #obliged #ready

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#conditional #greatest #known #man #self-esteem

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#about #caring #i #ideas #much

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #how #i #itself #judgmental

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life