#elves

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #children #explaining #forever #grown-ups

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#lies #meaning #meaning of #our #them

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#locked #seen #themselves #up #women

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#beasts #better #killed #men #run

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#being #better #breed #eye #feel

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#among #how #just #learn #make

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#died #forward #god #leaders #only

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. ↗

— George Saunders

#anyway #care #caring #dedicate #happen

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#better #better life #come #create #families