#elf

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change. ↗

— Richard Kiel

#bad #bad guy #be yourself #change #character

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#least #love #mind #never #our

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

#completely #gonna #got #hell #i

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. ↗

— Paul Klee

#concerns #emphasize #itself #like #mathematical

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#anyone #bad #because #cannot #claims

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#certain #draw #few #i #i believe

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#cannot #charge #community #craft #expression

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#fiction #i #myself #never #really

Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been. ↗

— Nikki Rosen

#faith #hope #kindness #mental-illness #self-esteem