Quotes - Yona McDonough (yona606) (Brooklyn, NY) Showing 1-30 of 89

#1

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#2

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

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#3

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#4

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#5

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#6

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, love

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#7

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

2693 likes

#8

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#9

“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, Secret Garden

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#10

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#11

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#12

“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#13

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#14

“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

tags: books, princess, reading

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#15

“Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#16

“It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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#17

“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

tags: fairy, fairyland

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#18

“Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.”
― P.L. Travers

tags: briar-rose, fairytales, sleeping-beauty

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#19

“Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by.
I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied.
And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon."
Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?"
The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.”
― P.L. Travers

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#20

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
― Pamela Lyndon Travers

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#21

“I hate being good.
-Mary Poppins”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

tags: being-good, mary-poppins, misbehaving

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#22

“If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.”
― P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins

tags: crossroads, opening-lines, policeman

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#23

“There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.”
― Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes

tags: clothing, feeling-better, self-esteem

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#24

“During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside.”
― Noel Streatfeild, Skating Shoes

tags: change, inspirational, people

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#25

“It might have all the same; you never can tell what's magic.”
― Noel Streatfeild , Ballet Shoes

tags: magic

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#26

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
― Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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#27

“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.”
― Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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#28

“...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel. ”
― Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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#29

“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”
― Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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#30

“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: elizabeth

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