#elves

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#averaging #could #day #days #employ

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ↗

— Zane Grey

#higher #may #men #rise #selves

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#changes #leaving #less #melancholy #more

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#cannot #into #keep #lives #others

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#below #continue #critics #enjoy #even

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#countries #globalized #internally #longer #muslim

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ↗

— Robert Neelly Bellah

#give #home #involves #kind #leaving

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know? ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#become #beliefs #go #goes #just

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#act #also #ball #come #direct