#elf

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#both #contempt #i #known #lessen

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#people #respond #responsible #way #you

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#being #find #i #myself #save

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#found #generally #i #ideal #me

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life. ↗

— Emily Procter

#basis #beat #been #children #devastating

I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh. ↗

— Emily Procter

#focus #going #hook #how #i

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing? ↗

— Emily Procter

#am #ask #crimes #doing #figure

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#been #end #every #faith #gold

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#bonds #exist #mind #only #our