If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
SHEL SILVERSTEINAnd the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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Everything isn’t everything.
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Whatever you are is all okay. I don’t like you anyway.
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me, Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
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Sometimes I get so depressed about what I haven’t done.
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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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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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So I’m all of the love that could make it today.
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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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Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
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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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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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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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There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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And the boy loved the tree, very much. And the tree was happy.
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And the tree was happy.
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