We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
SHEL SILVERSTEINIf the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
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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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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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Many leaves one tree.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
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And the tree was happy.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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How 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.
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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If you are a dreamer come in.
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There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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She had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, Then passed right by – And never knew.
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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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This boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
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