#elf

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#better #day #day to day #mind #never

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#believe in yourself #depends #mainly #success #think

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #cologne #first #germany #i

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#born #fasten #feebleness #had #instead

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

#happiness #may #prepare #self #should

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

#close #glory #i #know #leave

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #better #cares #immeasurable #itself

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#enjoy #learn #life #more #others

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ↗

— Boethius

#give #higher #itself #law #love is

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#bourgeoisie #class #exist #fine #flower