I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, "Let your characters grow. Up." And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, "Recognize you are grown up.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
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Nicholas Sparks
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
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Nicholas Sparks
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to...
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Lemony Snicket
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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Albert Einstein
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Carl Sandburg
More Quotes By Jane Yolen
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared...
A joke is a very serious thing.
This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
