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“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

— Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

— Roald Dahl, Matilda

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Don’t suppress your individuality for the sake of conformity.”

— Lois Lowry, The Giver (Giver Quartet)

“Always help those less powerful than yourself.”

— Dr. Suess, Horton Hears A Who

“Setting out on an adventure is thrilling, but coming home is even better.”

— Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“The very things that held you down are gonna carry you up and up and up.”

— Helen Aberson, ダンボ (ディズニー・ゴールデン・コレクション)

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“We're all mad here.”

— Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (CLASSICS TO GROW ON)

“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.”

— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)

“The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.”

— P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want. How many of us with our big salaries are actually secure anyway?”

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

— Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl Collection - 15 Paperback Book Boxed Set

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

— A.A. Milne, Pooh's Library: Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition)

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

— Dr. Suess, Horton Hears A Who

“If you need your public profile to be all positive, you’re sick in the head. I do the work I do, and what happens next I can’t look after.”

— Louis CK, Louis C.K. on the Right to Be Offensive, Why White Guys Should Stop Whining, and Bored Masturbation

“as a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, i know they have fallen in love with my mind. having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. art may be the only space a woman can be whole without being seen.”

— Nayyirah Waheed, via Tumblr

“The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.”

— Jesse Williams, BET Humanitarian Award Speech via Twitter