If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one for the wicked Try to escape you'll always fail, The only way out is Through a fairytale.
It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.
A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.
I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.
I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.
I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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