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There are only 3 colours, 10 digits, and 7 notes;
 it’s what you do with them that’s important.
-Jim Rohn-
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“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,”said the Queen.
“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed [...]

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“What if you slept?
And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke,
you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Philosopher,
Author: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1772-1834)
 
Many people have asked me to share my collection [...]

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Great quotes to ponder from the magical movie Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium….
“… as she became a grown up, she wasn’t so sure. I don’t know why grown ups don’t believe what they did when they were kids. I mean, aren’t they supposed to be smarter?  What Mahoney needed was the opportunity to prove to herself [...]

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Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and [...]

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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred,
and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit,
become a child again at Christmas-time.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Christmas waves a magic wand
over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.
–Norman Vincent Peale
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“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,”said the Queen.
“When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” 
Lewis Carroll
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Twenty years from now
You will be more disappointed
by [...]

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Although I  left the book ‘Brida’ in the hands of a lovely man in Greece, I had jotted down these two iinspring quotes in my travel journal:
“Magic is a bridge,” he said at last, “a bridge that allows you to walk from the visible world over into the invisible, and to learn lessons of both those [...]

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