"It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals."

-- Mamoru Hosoda

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!”

Source : Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.25, Hachette UK
“Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.”
“Weâ€™ve got to get past this idea that God is most glorified when weâ€™re rich, healthy and wealthy and we go, â€œIsnâ€™t God grand? Look at all He gave me.â€ Because if anybody joins us in that and says, â€œOh, if you love Jesus, you get a house and health and cars? Then I love Jesus too.â€ Because then all of a sudden youâ€™ve got a different religion. You have the religion of cars and houses, not God.”
“In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.”

Source : Kevin Smith (2012). “Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good”, p.13, Penguin
“Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.”
“I dreamt of a country where education would prevail.”
“The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.”
“To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.”

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