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“Always remember you matter, you're important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.”
Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Kahil Gibran

“And then a scholar said, Speak of Talking.
And he answered, saying:
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thought:
And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.
The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.
And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.
In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear:
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered.
When the colour is forgotten and the colour is no more.”
Kahil Gibran

Matt Haig
“The only way to learn is to live.”
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. -1923”
Kahil Gibran, The Prophet Pocket Edition

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