#ado

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#poetry #preserved #thus

Shadow owes its birth to light. ↗

— John Gay

#light #owes #shadow

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#adventure #because #carefree #days #drama

I just adored working with Woody. He was more than I could have ever dreamed of. I'd do it a million times over. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#could #dreamed #ever #i #just

A people always ends by resembling its shadow. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#ends #people #resembling #shadow

A child can escape the shadows. ↗

— Steve Largent

#escape #shadows

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#behind #ever #fleeting #gift #grief

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#conviction #gains #immensely #mind #minute

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#along #because #bumps #escaped #go