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"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."
–L.R.Knost -
"I am free and that is why I am lost"
–Franz Kafka -
E. L. Konigsburg, author of beloved children’s titles The View from Saturday, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, and, most famously, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, has died, at eighty-three.
Quote from From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.(via inkspotteddreams)
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"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth."
–Cicero -
"When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?"
–Carl Jung -
"You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you. You’re already familiar with the latter experience, allowing yourself to be swept along your fears, neuroses, insecurity, for we all have self-destructive tendencies."
–Paulo Coelho -
"In any man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. Not just people die, but worlds die in them."
–General Tso -
"Conquer yourself rather than the world."
–René Descartes -
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
–Martin Luther King Jr. -
"I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to."
–Elizabeth Berg
I like to collect quotes. I find that others have put things I think and feel into words far better than I ever could, and I like to remember those. This is my collection of things other people have said that have moved me, made me laugh, made me think, or made me yell "Ah-ha! Someone else gets it!"
