#elves

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. ↗

— Barack Obama

#christian #christian nation #citizens #consider #great

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#better job #higher #job #list #need

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves? ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#artists #everything #expose #said #sell

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#call #ever #get #need #people

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. ↗

— James Payn

#before #careful #cases #class #considerable

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#basic #basic understanding #better #break #cause

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#everything #judge #people #relates #see

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. ↗

— Max de Pree

#beautiful #beautiful things #both #dignity #diversity

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#combination #drawn #naturally #poetry #rhyme