Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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E.e. Cummings
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
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Lisa Wingate
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
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Shauna Niequist
Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
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Mhairi McFarlane
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By Bruno Bettelheim
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales’ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.
The myth of Oedipus. arouses powerful intellectual and emotional reactions in the adult-so much so, that it may provide a cathartic experience, as Aristotle taught all tragedy does. [A reader] may wonder why he is so deeply moved; and in responding to what he observes...
Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.
