#own

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#experience #grown-up #i #i can #judgment

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#gingrich #great #gross #hard #him

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consult #counsel #especially #friend #his

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#person #punished #remorse #severely #subject

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#failing #own #restrain #violence #youth

There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#delight #owning

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. ↗