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“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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