“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
-John Lennon
A very happy Mother's Day to all moms out there, everywhere!
"It's better to burn out, than to fade away."
-Neil Young
"While you never know what gifts life will bring, you can trust that every sunrise offers possibilities.
Every day holds beautiful moments and new dreams waiting for you to come and find them."
-Duvall
"Student says
'I am very discouraged.
What should I do?'
Teacher says,
'encourage others.'"
-Zen Proverb
"I jumped up and ran after the words that trailed like the dangling string from an air ball, up and up, from branch to branch escaping. Then like a cracked bowl the fixity of my morning broke, and putting down the bag of flour I thought, Life stands round me like glass round the imprisoned reed."
- The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
"When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down."
— Jay-Z, Decoded
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
-Truman Capote, US author (1924 - 1984)
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"Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by.
"I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied.
"And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon."
"Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?"
The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before.
And suddenly it occurred to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.
- P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins
"There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
-Edith Wharton
"Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift!"
- Louisa Edwards
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