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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.


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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child
PLATO Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil...
JOHN CONNOLLY You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
AVA DELLAIRA But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREEN The adult looks to deed, the child to love
HINDUSTANI PROVERB “When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostilit...
HAIM G. GINOTT When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.
When a child hits an adult, we call it hostil...
HAIM G. GINOTT When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
CAMPBELL BROWN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult wi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LEGUIN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark
AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...
THOMAS SZASZ A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me...
JACKIE EARLE HALEY If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out ...
RUTH CARLISLE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Most survivors grew up too fast. Their vulnerable child-selves got lost in the need to protect and d...
LAURA DAVIS I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.
BROM Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS I liked dolls as a child, but as an adult, I love them! They represent the good in all of us and dis...
GAYLE WRAY You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And ri...
AL FRANKEN Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with lov...
DRAGOS BRATASANU Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child.
ANONYMOUS Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For I think as an adult with the emotions of a child
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH It is easier to build a child than to repair an adult.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage
SIGMUND FREUD If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving ch...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done.
RENEE AHDIEH God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET She knew him in that way you can only know a person you remember as a child, like if you cracked awa...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the d...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH A child sees possibilities; an adult sees through the windows of harsh past realities.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.
TOTIE FIELDS Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgeme...
MARC CARROGGIO What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought,...
LEMONY SNICKET . . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.
BRYCE COURTENAY On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
NIGELLA LAWSON Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothin...
CAREW PAPRITZ I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER We didn't go into this in an impulsive way. We wanted to invite the parent into the viewing situatio...
ROSEMARIE TRUGLIO I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.
EVAN RACHEL WOOD Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' ...
ALEXI ZENTNER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?”
“Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopef...
BRENT WEEKS Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothin...
KIERA CASS Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and m...
CRISS JAMI

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ANON. Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.
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On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
That was never foaled,<...
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It snows on the first of Octoba
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That less than brimming is my cup.
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Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the Flea, Let us fly!<...
ANON. I asked for wisdom...
And God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity...
And God...
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We grow old because we stop playing.
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ANON. If a task has once begun.
Never leave it till it's done.
Be the labor great or small.
D...
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Risk more than others thi...
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ANON. Rank imposes obligation.
ANON. One pill, two pill, three pill, four,
five pill, six pill, seven pill, floor.
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ANON. Say not that you
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Who can divide her love among ten children
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Why spi...
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and make no outward show,
But what it means to lose you,
no one will ...
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ANON. I had the blues
because I had no shoes
until upon the street,
I met a man who had no feet.
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On top of Belted Mountain
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ANON. This is the beginning of a new day.
You have been given this day to use as you will.
You can w...
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Lord who light the skyes and fill up the abysses,
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sow a habit and you r...
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When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
...
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ANON. Winners never quit and quitters never win.
ANON. Never say I love you
If you really don't care.

Never talk about feelings
If they...
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And says we're going to the dogs.
His grandpa in his ho...
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ANON. WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is an Adventure ... Dare it
Life is a Beauty ... Praise it
Life is a Cha...
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ANON. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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ANON. Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
ANON. When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully.
ANON. One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
ANON. When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
ANON.