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“if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: children-s, fantasy, fiction, humor, illusions, imaginary, imagination, on-fiction, reality

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“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
― Brené Brown

tags: self-acceptance, self-love

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“... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: curiosity, education, inspirational, pure-science

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“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: mistakes

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