#elves

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves. ↗

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#human #human society #i #insist #invaded

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#comparison #difference #every #laws #nature

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#fate #firmness #having #love #make

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bloom #fade #feel #full #know

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#before #children #enough #marriage #mature

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#hard #image #keep #stay #up

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#based #body #dwells #expectations #limitations

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#characteristic #look #project #themselves #upon

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves. ↗