#elf

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. ↗

— Alan Watts

#being #brain #ears #enchanted #experience

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ↗

— Alan Watts

#define #like #own #teeth #trying

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#ignorance #own #your #yourself

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#first #found #great #great men #i

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#behind #both #cut #i #i think

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#itself #life #men #necessity #run

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#fan #i #might #myself #something

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#any #arrived #art college #beach #becoming

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#always #considered #first #foremost #i