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Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

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Can someone send a runner Through the weather that I'm under For the feeling I lost today?

The National, England

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Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Chimamanda Negozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

Beatrix Potter

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To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Miguel de Unamuno

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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Beatrix Potter

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He told me once that people will forget many things, but they will never forget a person who shows them kindness.

Sejal Badani, The Storyteller’s Secret

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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

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Your grandmother, Amisha, always said to me, ‘Ravi, when you are next to the earth, you can hear her secrets.

Sejal Badani, The Storyteller’s Secret 

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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

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When the wind blows,the grass bends.

Confucius, The Analects

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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

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I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

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You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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