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"If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all."

francis burnett (A Little Princess)

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"When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies."
francis burnett (A Little Princess)

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"Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow."
Frances Hodgson Burnett (the secret garden )

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"I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that i know i shall be sorry for having said. As a rule, he is charming to me, and we sit in the studio and talk of a thousand things. Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then i feel, Harry, that i have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day."

The Picture of Dorian Gray

love letter

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out where to begin.

I am 67 and have a grand daughter that likes this site. She doesn't believe in love though.

Well, I have been married to my wife since we were eighteen, but really time doesn't matter because what we have is eternal and I discover more things that are beautiful about her everyday.

I like the way her wrists are shaped, her hair is almost nearly askew in her bun, and how she breaths. I just want to feel her heartbeat and laugh at the ridiculous meals she prepares.

We're not perfect. Hell, no relationship is perfect. But, we're a bunch of haphazard pieces that make something so amazing. I would want to be with her everyday, regardless.

Just believe in initiation. Believe in yourself. Believe in the creases that form around the person you love's mouth as they smile.

And thanks .. for teaching me how to love. You're my forever crush.

http://letterstocrushes.com

the little prince

"That is the hardest thing of all.
It is much harder to judge yourself
than to judge others.
If you succeed in judging yourself,
it's because you're truly a wise man."

the little prince, antoine de saint exupery

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