Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift
that gift would be curiosity.
"I like Geography best, he said,
because your mountains and rivers know the secret.
Pay no attention to boundaries."
You gotta have a dream
If you don’t have a dream,
how ya gonna make a dream come true?
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash.
Are we supposed to eat this stuff?
Or is it going to eat us?
Sleep he as sound as careless infancy.
Mom, she said. Do women make new eggs every month?
No honey, a woman is born with all her eggs.
Oh, so that means I've always been with you!
Children often have imaginary playmates.
I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels.
One way to get the most out of life
is to look upon it as an adventure.
Of course I believe in heaven,
my grandma used to say.
There’s got to be some reward
for living with your grandfather all these years.
I was never good at hide and seek because
I’d always make enough noise
so my friends would be sure to find me.
I don’t have anyone to play those games with any more,
but now and then I make enough noise
just in case someone is still looking and hasn’t found me yet.
She said she usually cried at least once each day
not because she was sad,
but because the world was so beautiful
and life was so short.
I used to believe my father about everything,
but then I had children myself
and now I see how much stuff you make up
just to keep yourself from going crazy.
I don’t really have any secrets, he told me once.
I just forget a lot of stuff.
I like to find the secrets hidden in the moments of everyday life. My grandmother used to tell us that once upon a time
everything in the world had a voice,
and every place you walked you could hear the whispers
if you listened close enough. I believe the world still whispers.
But we have forgotten how to listen.
If you laugh a lot,
when you get older
your wrinkles will be
in the right place.
For memory has painted this perfect day,
with colors that never fade.
And we find at the end of a perfect day,
the soul of a friend we've made.
A father holds his children's hands for a little while...
...their hearts forever!
Love is the secret ingredient
In the recipe of life
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things,
but look at what they can do
when they stick together!
You can't put love in a box...
But you can wrap someone in a hug!
There is nothing insignificant - nothing!
Sometimes I sits and thinks...
...and sometimes I just sits.
There is something of God that can be expressed only by you
and that can be experienced by others only through you.
Let yourself believe further that
the Universe would be impoverished
if you had not been born.
The real voyage of discovery consists not
in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
"Older doesn't always mean wiser, my grandfather once said.
Sometimes it just means older."
"If I was a spider princess, she said, I would spin webs the color of sky and catch drops of sunlight to give to children who watch too much TV and then everyone would remember to come outside to play. If I was a spider princess, she said, things would be different."
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