#elf

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#communities #movement #must #political #self-reliant

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top. ↗

— Julie Brown

#crazy #i #i think #obsession #over

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#i #i can #into #lead #me

I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions. ↗

— Tina Brown

#express #felt #fun #had #have fun

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative. ↗

— Harry Browne

#important #important thing #initiative #own #thing

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love-yourself #relationships #self-esteem #beauty

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabia #belief #completely #day #every

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#contains #germ #growth #itself

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#good #itself #life #man #marriage

They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#cast #different #educated #face #interest