#elf

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. ↗

— John Updike

#ecstasy #existence #experience #feel #feels

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. ↗

— John Updike

#could #enough #four #given #had

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#face #good #humor #laugh #life

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#anyone #because #before #done #else

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#crime #fear #immigrants #increase #more

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it. ↗

— Julie Christie

#directors #hands #i #into #liked

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#harm #himself #man #who #wrong

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #highest #human #human reason #itself

You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want. ↗

— Fred Upton

#allowing #companies #compete #consumers #deployment

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. ↗

— Eric Church

#around #come #ideas #just #key