#elves

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that? ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#ask #going #good #lousy #ourselves

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#called #human #human beings #inalienable #inalienable right

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#days #deeper #inwardly #less #life

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. ↗

— Anna Held

#indulgent #mistake #most #old #old age

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#ourselves #stories #telling

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#because #best #between #block #blocks

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#pursuit #rest #themselves #tire

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#father #knowing #little #man #many

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#good #graceful #intelligent #loved #pretty

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look