#ado

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#confuse #fame #helen #keller #madonna

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. ↗

— Epictetus

#adorn #first #know #then #who

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#any #child #desperate #enough #entering

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#cave #content #difference #emerged #images

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico. ↗

— Jennifer Esposito

#el salvador #father #geography #give #how

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#cat #essentially #fully #house #mean

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #live #shadow #without

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#adolescence #childhood #could #early #early life

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#colour #less #light #only #relation

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. ↗

— Harold Evans

#always #complex #more #nuanced #paradox