Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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