I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh
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Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
Winnie The Pooh
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How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh
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It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool,
For love,
For your dream,
For the adventure of being alive.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer,
The Invitation
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Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will all take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take.
Neil Gaiman,
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains
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But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.
Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin: Volume 1
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How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively.
“You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Trina Paulus,
Hope for the Flowers
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Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on an ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery on ink on paper.
Arthur Golden,
Memoirs of a Geisha
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Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
There’s no easy path from to earth to the stars
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That’s the great thing about literature—it makes the world less lonely.
Robert Stone
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