#elves

Make a difference about something other than yourselves. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#difference #make #make a difference #other #something

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ↗

— Van Morrison

#famous person #get #i #me #morning

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. ↗

— John Motson

#good #like #pitch #playing #round

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy. ↗

— Tertullian

#indeed #philosophy #themselves

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#compete #found #having #increasingly #networks

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#citizens #data #facts #figures #forthcoming

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#another #destiny #find #life #love

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#effects #good #leaves #love #loved

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #others #ourselves #peace

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain