#elf

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#art #artist #been #best #call

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#discontent #imperfection #inconvenience #lot #mortals

I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#been #disappoint #i #make #myself

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#exercising #hearing #hiking #i #like

I've always said that sexy is having a really strong sense of yourself and never taking yourself too seriously. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#having #i #never #really #said

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#creates #incentives #lead #long #negative

Always be yourself... unless you suck. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#be yourself #suck #unless #you #yourself

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#beliefs #come #desire #doing #ego

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#blind #considered #itself #man #resistance

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beginning #lifelong #oneself #romance #to love