#elf

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#fear #inner-peace #personal-growth #self-awareness #life

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing. ↗

— Fred Durst

#bad #bad thing #confidence #ego #great

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by. ↗

— Fred Durst

#bill #car #consumed #getting #know

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#i #mind #self-confident #speak

I still consider myself a feminist. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#feminist #i #myself #still

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#actor #always #chair #character #craft

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#body #rather #see #soul #than

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#define #i #me #mother #much

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#die #first #i #like #live