#yours

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. ↗

— Marilyn French

#ancient greeks #delusion #even #greeks #insanity

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure. ↗

— David Friedman

#always #beyond #career #come #great

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#character #dream #forge #hammer #into

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#back #cheerfulness #extra #height #inches

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#day #death #else #forever #found

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself. ↗

— Jet Li

#how #problem #shows #solve #you

I think it's OK to be confident in yourself. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#i #i think #ok #think #yourself

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#hoped #i #judgments #other #protect

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#children #daughters #different #everything #focuses

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#desires #developing #empower #enables #film