#fame

I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fame #happiness #inspirational-life #inspirational-love #inspirational-quotes

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back. ↗

— James Patterson

#humourous #illness #run-for-there-life #life

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. ↗

— Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#fame #fashion #poetry #love

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns. ↗

— Shay Caroline

#fans #love

Be not covetous of worldly honors, for you will have honor enough, even from wicked men, if your lives are “holiness unto the Lord. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#holiness #men

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown. ↗

— Idries Shah

#men

The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a particular story is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance. It invades the privacy of men and women who didn’t give up being human when they became famous, and it negates the meaning inherent in our own lives. (300) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#compassion #fame #gossip #humanity #privacy

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#fame

Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He's a clever, prolific man; so are they. But he began with money and friends; he came from Oxford into the thick of advertised people; his name was mentioned in print six times a week before he had written a dozen articles. This kind of thing will become the rule. Men won't succeed in literature that they may get into society, but will get into society that they may succeed in literature.' New Grub Street ↗

— George R. Gissing

#men