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“Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards

“ In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game! ”
― Julie Andrews

“Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

“Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.”
― Julie Andrews

“Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
― Julie Andrews

“A rose lay open in full bloom
and, looking from my garden room,
I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain.
It seemed so fragile,
resting there,
and such a silence filled the air,
the beauty of the moment caused me pain.
"What more?" I thought. "There must be more."
As if in answer then, I saw
one weighty drop that caused my rose to fall.
It trembled, then cascaded down
to earth just staining gentle brown
and, since then, I've felt different.
That's all.”
― Julie Andrews, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th time.”
― Julie Andrews

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Aristotle

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“Some of these new country singers aren’t really country. I think some of them ought to be singing pop music and just leave country alone. You don’t have to see them, you can hear it. It is what it is, I guess, but I’d still rather they just let the ones that sing country sing country.”
― Loretta Lynn, Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!”
― Dolly Parton

“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words”
― Dolly Parton

“You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to run”
― Kenny Rogers

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges