#elf

Humor comes from self-confidence. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#humor #self-confidence

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#did #i #middle #myself #novelist

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel. ↗

— Harry Browne

#ever #feel #happiness #himself #his

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. ↗

— Harry Browne

#coming #country #death #fear #free

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#anything #could #dreams #else #ever

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #contemptible #even #himself #lets

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#assert #deserved #did #folly #healthy

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#good #him #himself #how #know

I put myself into character for my songs. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#i #into #myself #put #songs