#elves

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#down #elves #focused #graceful #grounded

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#consider #evil #generally #inventors #people

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#more #never #opinions #retract #than

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves. ↗

— Karen Kain

#dancer #enemy #sometimes #themselves #worst

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#beliefs #christianity #christians #evidence #him

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#art #damn #damn thing #every #just

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#mortals #ourselves #ruled

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#bodies #hit #keeping #occupy #off

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#laugh #learn #never #ourselves #until

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#gee #hope #i #keep #life