#yours

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ↗

— Confucius

#impose #others #you #yourself

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#public #self #than #write #yourself

What you say and how you look does not define who you are,because some of the most beautiful people do the ugliest things.You owe it to the people who hate you, who disrespect you and who put you down, because they’re the ones who have made you who you are today,for keeping your head up and not breaking down when they want you to. ↗

— Amber Ward

#beauty

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#america #country #easy #looking #means

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#best work #bit #doing #feel #flight

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#good work #i #rich #say #then

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated. ↗

— Ville Valo

#because #best #best way #coffin #cremated

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing. ↗

— David Copperfield

#better #depending #doing #feel #kind

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even? ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#break #even #how #important #important question

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #committee #decisions #deferring #instead