February 2012
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Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly...
– Robert Brault
January 2012
1 post
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A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.
– John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928
December 2011
4 posts
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
– Hugh Prather
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Wizard of Oz: Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable....
– The Wizard of Oz
Joy in not in things; it is in us.
– Benjamin Franklin
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
– Mark Twain
November 2011
24 posts
Don’t ever wish to be anything but what you are.
– Mother (Thumbelina, 1994)
…..nor was she the girl in glasses who’s entirely sexless. You know what I mean,...
– JK Rowling
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
– Woody Allen
Their perfume lost, take these again; for to the noble mind rich gifts wax poor...
– Ophelia, Hamlet
My thoughts create my world.
– Marcus Flutie, Charmed Thirds
Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more. But if you...
– Oprah Winfrey
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who...
– Dale Carnegie
One kind word can warm three winter months.
– Proverb
You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road, and...
– Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
Man is what he believes.
– Anton Chekhov
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
– Winnie the Pooh
There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to...
– Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only...
– Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always...
– Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I guess if true love was easy, we’d all have it.
– Mary Margaret Blanchard/Snow White, Once Upon a Time
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...
– G. K. Chesterton
You know, I feel like young girls are told that they have to be this kind of...
– Emma Watson
Sometimes I am the Poet ~ Sometimes I am the Poem.
– PJ Johnson
As Harry Potter was the only other thing I was passionate about, the doctors...
– Evanna Lynch (in part of her Dear Mr. Potter letter, where she describes first reading about Luna while in a recovery program for anorexia)
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
– Lewis Hine
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You can read something a hundred times and feel nothing, and then read it at the...
– Laala (Distant Heartbeats)
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Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to...
– Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
We do not need magic to transform our world, we carry all the power we need...
– J.K. Rowling
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Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!
– Valerie Felicity Frizzle, The Magic School Bus
October 2010
13 posts
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.
– Lewis Carroll
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Be who you are and say what you feel: because those who mind don’t matter and...
– Dr. Seuss
I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere....
– Conan O’Brien
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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
– Japanese Proverb
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I think, maybe, the best things, the richest things aren’t supposed to...
– Juliet O’Hara
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To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given.
– Matthew 25:29
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough...
– Walt Disney
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Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
– Dr. Seuss
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
– Maya Angelou
1 tag
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
– Unknown
2 tags
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have...
– Walt Disney
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Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every...
– Eleanor Roosevelt
September 2010
20 posts
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Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
– the Dalai Lama
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Look at those who are honest and good, for a wonderful future awaits those who...
– Psalm 3:37
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I wanted to run away that day, but you can’t run away from your own feet.
– Flint Lockwood, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
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We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we...
– Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less,...
– Swedish proverb
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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
– Karen Maezen Miller
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
– Unknown