#elves

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#future #had #invent #live #lost

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#books #burden #keep #our #ourselves

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. ↗

— Dogen

#discover #once #original #our #selves

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#coming #express #finding #funny #funny people

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves. ↗

— Bill Condon

#anybody #based #defined #kinsey #limiting

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves. ↗

— Don Cornelius

#convinced #i #i am #just #like

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#contrary #examine #inward #men #ourselves

I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta. ↗

— Joseph Crowley

#believe #bill #brutal #cannot #citizens

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball. ↗

— Barry Bonds

#baseball #care #how #know #life