"I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more."

-- Dolly Parton

#Kids Quotes #Simple Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

Source : "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.”
“Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.”

Source : Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.16
“A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.”

Source : Li-Young Lee, “The City In Which I Loved You”
“It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life. Many look for it in the hoarding of riches, some in the pride of power, and others in the achievements of art and literature; a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds, or in search for knowledge.”
“You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.
“There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the center of the life experience. We are spiritual beings living in a material universe, and as such, our first priority is to nurture that eternal part of us. The eleventh step of AA's twelve-step program states it beautifully: "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out."”

Source : Douglas Bloch (2015). “A Treasury of Spiritual Quotations, Poems and Prayers: Words of Love and Wisdom”, p.27, BookBaby
“I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me. -Liberty Jones”

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