#elf

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#every #every man #go #high #himself

It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#itself #just #like #lot #make

It was hard to make fun of him because he seemed to have so much fun making fun of himself. ↗

— James Barron

#fun #fun making #hard #him #himself

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself. ↗

— Todd Barry

#ever #few #had #i #impression

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#daily #daily life #i #i think #interesting

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. ↗

— John Barrymore

#drown #float #i #tried #you

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. ↗

— John Barth

#attributed #everything #intrinsically #itself #nothing

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#alone #come #compel #every #every man

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ↗

— Matsuo Basho

#every #every day #home #itself #journey

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#ask #going #life-changing #questions #something