#elves

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#appear #believe #care #commit #contracts

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#always #arrogance #big #big enough #conversely

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. ↗

— Jose Marti

#gift #making #obligation #our #ourselves

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#does #instruction #mistakes #often #prevent

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#could #everything #just #know #make

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cannot #discover #help #only #over it

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#authority #bound #consider #constrain #experiment

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. ↗

— Liam Gallagher

#bunch #deodorant #get #head #like