#elf

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

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#assume #body #educate #food #good

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#around #been #borrow #come #family

I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#forever #getting #getting married #i #i do