Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
A. A. MILNEIf you were a bird, and lived on high, You’d lean on the wind when the wind came by, You’d say to the wind when it took you away: ‘That’s where I wanted to go today!
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
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Think it over, think it under.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You’d lean on the wind when the wind came by, You’d say to the wind when it took you away: ‘That’s where I wanted to go today!
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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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