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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.

Shel Silverstein

He wasted his wishes on wishing.
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Himself Wasted Time
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Inspirational Success Thinking
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Explanation Talk
And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Poem Poet Wonderful
I keep meeting all the right people at all the wrong places.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Myself People Place Right Wrong
And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Herself Love Man
Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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Deep Himself
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.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Divine Forget Try
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?
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Himself Philosophy
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.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Flower Language Myself Secret Smile Understand
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Myself Self Love Worth
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.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Deep Friendship Goodness Live Love
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.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Herself Hide Life Search Skin
Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Love Man Tree
There is a place where the sidewalk ends.
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End Place
Everything isn’t everything.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Minimalism One Liner Philosophy

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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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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