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Fairy tales are life lessons disguised with colorful characters and situations.
“Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don’t have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn’t mean you’re without your own talents.”
Suddenly, a large history book flew from the back of the classroom and hit Mrs. Peters on the head, leaving a large dent in her curly hair. The entire class turned to the back of the room and saw Conner’s extended hand. He had just thrown a book at their teacher!
“I’ve learned that the more people embrace their disadvantages, the less disadvantaged they become!
It was difficult for them even to go to school with just a small blemish on their faces; they couldn’t imagine the stress of facing the world as an enormous amphibian.
A small gingerbread house sat in between two large trees. White frosting covered its pointed roof, gumdrops were clumped around like shrubbery, and candy canes lined the path to the front door like a picket fence. “Look, Conner!” Alex said, catching her breath. “It’s a gingerbread house, a real gingerbread house! Look how cute it is!” “Whoa,” Conner said. “I feel like I may get diabetes from just looking at that place.”
“Some annoying little girl told me once that optimism always pays off, and she’s usually right about things.”
“I never thought my life would change so drastically, so I always made the most of what I had,”
it doesn’t matter what life you’re living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.
She was showing too much skin, wearing too much makeup, and was dressed too well for the middle of the day.
