#elf

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. ↗

— Princess Diana

#divorced #especially #even #had #harder

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ↗

— Dawn French

#beautiful #father #his #i #life

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. ↗

— Marilyn French

#explore #fear #fears #house #our

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#convince #ears #every #eyes #fingertips

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ↗

— Anna Freud

#comes #confidence #i #looking #myself

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#depends #entirely #itself #seen #whether

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#entirely #exercise #good #good exercise #honest

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#belligerent #disgrace #every #individual #itself

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#being #content #deal #dream #dreams