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“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh