#elves

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#hard #how #just #ourselves #surprising

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#human #human society #i #insist #invaded

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#come #great #gymnasium #make #ourselves

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#before #children #enough #marriage #mature

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#come #common #common thing #does #i

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bogus #celebrates #general #good #good work

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? ↗

— George Wald

#i #i do #involving #know #molecule

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #been #obvious #ourselves #really

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Vera Wang

#against #although #always #anyone #better

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#audience #find #themselves #without