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  • #1
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #3
    Christopher Moore
    “Children see magic because they look for it.”
    Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

  • #4
    Isabel Allende
    “Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #5
    Rachel Carson
    “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
    Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us

  • #6
    Jane Goodall
    “One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #7
    Alice Hoffman
    “She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”
    Alice Hoffman, The Story Sisters

  • #8
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “I've been the oldest child since before you were born”
    E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #11
    Pablo Neruda
    “Algún día en cualquier parte, en cualquier lugar indefectiblemente te encontrarás a ti mismo, y ésa, sólo ésa, puede ser la más feliz o la más amarga de tus horas.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #12
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #13
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #14
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #15
    E.E. Cummings
    “I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #16
    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #17
    E.E. Cummings
    “since feeling is first
    who pays any attention
    to the syntax of things
    will never wholly kiss you;

    wholly to be a fool
    while Spring is in the world

    my blood approves,
    and kisses are a far better fate
    than wisdom
    lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
    --the best gesture of my brain is less than
    your eyelids' flutter which says

    we are for eachother: then
    laugh, leaning back in my arms
    for life's not a paragraph

    And death i think is no parenthesis”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #18
    E.E. Cummings
    “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
    e.e. cummings

  • #19
    E.E. Cummings
    “in time of daffodils(who know
    the goal of living is to grow)
    forgetting why,remember how

    in time of lilacs who proclaim
    the aim of waking is to dream,
    remember so(forgetting seem)

    in time of roses(who amaze
    our now and here with paradise)
    forgetting if,remember yes

    in time of all sweet things beyond
    whatever mind may comprehend,
    remember seek(forgetting find)

    and in a mystery to be
    (when time from time shall set us free)
    forgetting me,remember me”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #20
    E.E. Cummings
    “Love is a place
    & through this place of
    love move
    (with brightness of peace)
    all places

    yes is a world
    & in this world of yes live
    (skillfully curled)
    all worlds”
    E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, yes

  • #21
    E.E. Cummings
    “maggie and milly and molly and may"

    maggie and milly and molly and may
    went down to the beach(to play one day)

    and maggie discovered a shell that sang
    so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

    milly befriended a stranded star
    whose rays five languid fingers were;

    and molly was chased by a horrible thing
    which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

    may came home with a smooth round stone
    as small as a world and as large as alone.

    For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
    it’s always ourselves we find in the sea”
    E. E. Cummings, E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

  • #22
    E.E. Cummings
    “love is the every only god”
    E.E. Cummings



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