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today you are you, that is truer than true. there is no one alive who is youer than you. - dr. seuss
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There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.
- Brian Andreas
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The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.
- from Winnie the Pooh
- from Winnie the Pooh
When a child loves you for a long, long time...REALLY loves you, then you become real. Generally , by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby, but these things don't matter at all, because once you are real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. -The Velveteen Rabbit
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
-Maya Angelou
-Maya Angelou
The woeful fright in the coal-smutted face made her suddenly so sorry that she could scarcely bear it. One of her queer thoughts rushed into her mind. She put her hand against Becky's cheek.
"Why," she said, "we are just the same--I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!"
- from A Little Princess
That night I kept thinking about Pandora's box. I wondered why someone would put a good thing such as Hope in a box with sickness and kidnapping and murder. It was fortunate that it was there, though. If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear wars and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics. There must have been another box with all the good things in it, like sunshine and love and trees and all that. Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Maybe it was Worry. Even when everything seems fine and good, I worry that something will go wrong and change everything.
-from Walk Two Moons
-from Walk Two Moons
The ocean is made of drops.
- Mother Teresa
- Mother Teresa
A person's a person, no matter how small.
-Dr. Seuss
-Dr. Seuss
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
-Brian Andreas
-Brian Andreas
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
- Confucius
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
-Margaret Mead
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.
-from Love Actually
-from Love Actually
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
This is our cry, this is our prayer: peace in the world.
-from Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
-from Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.
-Brian Andreas
-Brian Andreas
Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly
in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow,
Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . .How did it go? How did it go?
-Shel Silverstein
-Shel Silverstein
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
-Louisa May Alcott
-Louisa May Alcott
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy