#elf

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#beat #because #bit #feel #get

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#best #enhances #given #make #may

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#learned #myself #never #popular #school

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#container #create #itself #narrative #people

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. ↗

— John Bolton

#hopelessly #i #i think #itself #nobel

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#thing #want #well #you #yourself

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#himself #pretty #real #self-conscious #well

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#invent #painting #possibly #you #yourself