Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
My heart is strong now because you’re in it.
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Shō (Sean), Secret World of Arrietty
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Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.
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John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928
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Wizard of Oz: Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
Tin Woodsman: But I still want one.
You can read something a hundred times and feel nothing, and then read it at the right time and be shattered.
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.
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Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
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Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!
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Valerie Felicity Frizzle, The Magic School Bus
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.
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Lewis Carroll

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Be who you are and say what you feel: because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
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Dr. Seuss

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
I think, maybe, the best things, the richest things aren’t supposed to come easily, and that sometimes the moments that make the most sense happen when everything else doesn’t.
To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given.