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#1

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45234 likes

#2

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#3

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#4

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: fairy-tales

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#5

“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: peter-pan

1197 likes

#6

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#7

“Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

tags: hans-christian-andersen

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#8

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: fairy-tales

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#9

“At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: eleven-minutes, paulo-coelho

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#10

“Butterflies and zebras
and moonbeams and fairy tales,
That's all she ever thinks about,
Riding with the wind.”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: daydreams, dreams, fantasies, fantasy, imagination, innocence

218 likes

#11

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#12

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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#13

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

2967 likes

#14

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#15

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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#16

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

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#17

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: reality-bothered

2852 likes

#18

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, censorship

2788 likes

#19

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
― Ray Bradbury

522 likes

#20

“I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”
― Ray Bradbury

363 likes

#21

“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

tags: humor

780 likes

#22

“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational

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#23

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: buddhism, common-sense, life, zen

1399 likes

#24

“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: books, magic, universe

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#25

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: book-lover

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#26

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17494 likes

#27

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: sacrifice

3291 likes

#28

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: peter-pan-movie

2105 likes

#29

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

5405 likes

#30

“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan