#elf

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#down #foot #gas #hard #i

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cosmos #distant #ego #may #more

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out. ↗

— Lee Child

#i #itself #just #out #pivotal

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#any #belief #bricks #building #important

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#between #comes #himself #implacable #man

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#lost #person #something #sweet #very