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My favorite thing is the wind, she said, & my second favorite is chocolate but I just do that so I don't get too skinny & blow away ~Story People
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“we need a renaissance of wonder. we need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.” ~ e. merrill root
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~Leo Buscaglia
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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. ~Angelo Patri
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When you tug at a single thing in nature, you find it attached to the rest of the world. — John Muir
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...only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be... ~Karen Ravn
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
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We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
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Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ~Marcel Proust
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I've always liked the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.
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Don't you hear it? she asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you.
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I carry you with me into the world, into the smell of rain & the words that dance between people & for me, it will always be this way, walking in the light, remembering being alive together.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...
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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
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When I grow up, I want to remember that I always wanted to be about a thousand different things & one lifetime didn't seem nearly enough. When I grow up, I hope it's at the very end when it doesn't matter anymore anyway
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From the time she was born, I didn't know where I left off and where she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain. ~Lee Grant
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I think the world really boils down to two types of people - those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds. ~Danzae Pace
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller