#elf

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#definition #heart #himself #his #imagines

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. ↗

— Christian Bale

#certain #character #else #embarrassing #embarrassment

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing. ↗

— Christian Bale

#go #going #i #i can #imagination

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing. ↗

— Christian Bale

#dinner #find #forget #get #having

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#discouraged #faith #get #hard #hard way

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#existence #literal #literal sense #most #only

I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage. ↗

— Ed Balls

#back #bidding #define #defined #doing

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#allow #along #banned #beauty #courage

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Washington Allston

#himself #man #only #wise #wise man

I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries. ↗

— Willie Aames

#always #children #comfortable #figured #had