#elf

I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you. ↗

— Thia Megia

#against #back #cause #good #hear

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ↗

— Golda Meir

#achievement #be happy #create #fanning #flames

Do everything yourself. ↗

— Nellie Melba

#yourself

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself. ↗

— Nellie Melba

#first #life #opera #rule #see

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#being #business #disagree #disagreeable #discovered

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.' ↗

— Menander

#good #know #know thyself #many #others

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#secure #self-respect #suspicious #yet

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#draws #faults #our #own #self-love

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#complete #consciousness #does #everything #existence