#selves

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#business #confirm #fact #facts #harmonize

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#get #left #right #themselves #things

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#creativity #doorway #effort #give #groaning

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

None but ourselves can free our minds. ↗

— Bob Marley

#minds #none #our #ourselves

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#enables #find #lose #ourselves #same

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#others #ourselves #see #spot #us

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#answer #ask #connected #ever #give

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out! ↗

— Ben Affleck

#gay #hasn #knock #marriage #out