#elf

Listen, kiddo,” he said. “I’m a selfish prick, and I want to be the greatest fuck of your life and ruin you for every man who comes after me. But I’m not a mind reader, so I need some help. Otherwise I could end up as the douchebag who’s got shitty taste in wine and totally traumatized you when you were thirty. ↗

— Cara McKenna

#selfish #life

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#krishnamurti #self #life

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am. ↗

— Sarah Miller

#inspirational #life #otma #romanovs #royalty

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#life-lessons #respecting-others #respecting-yourself #thoughts-on-life #life

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. ↗

— George Eliot

#self-image #life

Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fire #fireballs #humanism #humanity #inspirational

The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#god #life #self-worth #life

When the winds of life is pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#don-t-give-up #push-yourself #strength #life

Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#self-consciousness #social-life #life

As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be. ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#peace #self-esteem #spiritual-growth #life