#elves

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#denying #everything #friends #gives #just

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there. ↗

— Julien Green

#enough #far #get #life #long

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#children #concentration #create #games #immerse

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. ↗

— Bruce Grocott

#i #kept #long #more #opinion

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#between #book #children #difference #even

The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. ↗

— Larry Williams

#confidence #fear #learn #manage #must

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#few people #people #spotlight #themselves #truly

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#becoming #create #fully #honest #humans

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#longer #men #must #please #princeton

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#i #people #put #readily #themselves