#elf

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#expansion #family #family structure #generation #measure

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#been #disappointed #i #itself #just

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#age #books #bookstore #gave #go

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#being myself #closest #competition #decided #discovery

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#challenge #effort #great #great way #interesting

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#continue #could #experience #had #i

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#away #became #better #doing #giving

There are things one must do for oneself. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#oneself #things

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ↗

— John Muir

#anything #else #everything #find #hitched

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#driven #high #india #itself #mission