#elf

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#expect #like #listen #much #others

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#character #create #industry #self-control #sought

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#hands #i #i see #itself #like

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bring #bringing #changes #fate #life

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#down #get #i #keep #lot

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#failure #forgive #i #imagine #life

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#else #understand #you #yourself

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#cameras #care #cars #i #materialistic

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do? ↗

— George Crook

#catch #enough #family #gone #himself