#elves

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#benefit #casually #curious #doing #doing the right thing

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#appears #bit #chances #democracy #depend

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#empower #garden #gonna #knowledge #led

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#move #only #ourselves #peace #planting

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#life #never #ourselves #seriously #take

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall. ↗

— John Dyer

#cornwall #county #enjoying #great #great love

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #despair #human #human beings #humanity

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem