"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for."
Marting Luther King Jr.
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."
Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME |Roman Holiday (1953), William Wyler.
Ann: At midnight, I’ll turn into a pumpkin and drive away in my glass slipper.
Joe: And that will be the end of the fairy tale.
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"To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time."
Clara Ortega
"Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die."
The Magicians (Lev Grossman)
"So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
"I understood the word SWOON. It felt that way, like SWEEP and MOON and WOO, all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then."
What I Saw and How I Lied (Judy Blundell)
"It’s strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present."
Beautiful Lies (Lisa Unger)
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one’s head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one’s heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun — which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in some one’s eyes."
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
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"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairytales."
Einstein
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
Robert Frost
