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  • #1
    Ian Falconer
    “Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
    No, Olivia, just one."
    How about four?"
    Two."
    Three."
    Oh, all right, three. But that's it!”
    Ian Falconer, Olivia

  • #2
    A.A. Milne
    “It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
    "So it is."
    "And freezing."
    "Is it?"
    "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #3
    A.A. Milne
    “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #4
    A.A. Milne
    “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"

    "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"

    "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.

    Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #5
    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #6
    A.A. Milne
    “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #7
    A.A. Milne
    “Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

    "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #8
    A.A. Milne
    “If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #9
    A.A. Milne
    “What I like doing best is Nothing."

    "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.

    "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.

    It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

    "Oh!" said Pooh.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #10
    A.A. Milne
    “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #11
    A.A. Milne
    “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #12
    A.A. Milne
    “What day is it?” asked Pooh.
    “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
    “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #14
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #15
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It



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