#elf

We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of real story, real art — without the wisdom, insight, and “life instruction” it brings — we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art! ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #art

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that. ↗

— Hillman Curtis

#design #envy #inspiration #psyche #self

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. ↗

— Francis Thompson

#atheist #believes #himself #man #who

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. ↗

— Leszek Kołakowski

#doubt #irony #modernity #philosophy #self-criticism

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe. ↗

— Gina Charles

#awakening #consciousness #enlightenment #metaphysics #self-help

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#self-image #sense-of-self #stories #storytelling #story

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#potential

All we are not stares back at what we are. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#self-improvement #potential

How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day. ↗

— Anne Frank

#self-improvement #improvement

Let us cultivate our garden. ↗

— Voltaire

#improvement