#elf

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#done #kindness #more #obliged #ready

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#conditional #greatest #known #man #self-esteem

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#about #caring #i #ideas #much

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #how #i #itself #judgmental

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#beauty #flaw #itself

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ashamed #been #being #grandparents #having

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#bring #nobody #you #yourself

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. ↗

— Eminem

#different schools #ever #go #i #like