Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
SHEL SILVERSTEINHow much good inside a day? Depends on how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends on how much you give ’em.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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Everything isn’t everything.
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
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And the tree was happy.
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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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If you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tails to spin, come in, come in.
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