“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...”
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“Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.”
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.”
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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