#elf

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home. ↗

— Carson Daly

#both #city #eat #entertain #entertaining

But I dig myself, and especially if my wife digs me, I dig myself more. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#digs #especially #i #me #more

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#go #i #i can #long #look

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. ↗

— Matt Damon

#big #crowds #embrace #enough #events

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. ↗

— William Dampier

#business #commonly #day #either #every

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure. ↗

— Evan Dando

#feel #guess #human #human way #i

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being. ↗

— Claire Danes

#being #did #finally #formed #grow

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day. ↗

— Claire Danes

#day #differentiated #educated #found #graduated

Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point of egoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people? Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self- oriented. You are not interested in others as persons, but only as far as they enrich, or enoble your own image of yourself. And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection, preservation and multiplication of one's own body. By body I mean all that is related to your name and shape--- your family, tribe, country, race, etc. To be attached to one's name and shape is selfishness. A man who knows that he is neither body nor mind cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for. Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish' on behalf of everybody he meets; everybody's welfare is his own. The feeling 'I am the world, the world is myself' becomes quite natural; once it is es- tablished, there is just no way of being selfish. To be selfish means to covet, to acquire, accumulate on behalf of the part against the whole. I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj ↗

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#humanity #inspirational #self-realization #equality

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ↗

— Henry Ford

#care #everyone #forward #itself #moving