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![]() Author has written 10 stories for Sonic the Hedgehog, Ninja Turtles, Looney Tunes, Fairly OddParents, Casper, and Top Cat. Quick news report: if anyone has seen the Disney fanfiction called Family, I would really appreciate it. For those who don't know, it takes place after the Mickey's House of Villians movie and it's about when Mickey finds out why the Villians did what they did and tells them tat their family as well as the heroes. This is my favorite Disney story so if you have it copied somewhere, I would also love the copy too. That is all, thank you for your time.* You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing. Donna Hedges ’Ohana means family — no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. Marsha Norman It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible — elves probably more so. Charles de Lint Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. H.F. Hedge Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures — squirrels, fairies and angels. Author Unknown Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994 Hand in hand, with fairy grace, I live my daydreams in music. Albert Einstein You're never too old to do goofy stuff. From the television show Leave it to Beaver, spoken by the character Ward Cleaver Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. Robert Fulghum It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. James Douglas Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso You will find more happiness growing down than up. Author Unknown I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work. Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. Sam Levenson In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow. Papiha Ghosh Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties. Terri Guillemets Some things can only be understood when you're in a tree house. With a pile of warm chocolate chip cookies. And a book. Dr. SunWolf In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Friedrich Nietzsche We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. Robert Fulghum I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? John Lennon A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. Rachel Carson Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis I want to giggle myself to sleep each night and jump on the fluffy, comforting pillows of faith. Terri Guillemets Deep meaning lies often in childish play. Johann Friedrich von Schiller There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. J. Robert Oppenheimer Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. Jean de la Bruyere Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?" Fran Lebowitz “These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten): “It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.” -Robert Fulghum “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” -Robert Fulghum “You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.” “Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. One man's daydreaming is another man's novel. Grey Livingston We can do no great things; only small things with great love.-Mother Teresa “Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives. It’s that way with the guy at the corner grocery, the mechanic at the local garage, the family doctor, teachers, neighbors, coworkers. Good people who are always “there,” who can be relied upon in small, important ways. People who teach us, bless us, encourage us, support us, uplift us in the dailiness of life. We never tell them. I don’t know why, but we don’t. “If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.” -Robert Fulghum Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. Robert H. Schuller We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. Mary C. Crowley No God, no peace. Know God, know peace. Author Unknown I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor. Robert Brault I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. Mary Gardiner Brainard Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love. Sri Chinmoy Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside. Author Unknown Been taken for granted? Imagine how God feels. Author Unknown God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. David Nicholas God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. Author Unknown If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. Robert Brault It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. Joseph Joubert God's last name is not "Dammit." Author Unknown Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. Diana Robinson God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. Harry Emerson Fosdick God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. St. Augustine Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. Author Unknown Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Kurt Vonnegut Colors are the smiles of nature. Leigh Hunt There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. Elizabeth Lawrence Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells Life is more fun if you play games. Roald Dahl Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. Louis L’Amour In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. Abram L. Urban A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. Douglas Pagels The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. Ellen Glasgow A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. Sam Ewing In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. Robert Brault I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees. Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898 Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons. Author Unknown Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now.William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly" Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. Author Unknown We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. Japanese Proverb Memories are stitched with love. Author Unknown Good friends are like quilts - they age with you yet never lose their warmth. Author Unknown Words have meaning and names have power. Author Unknown A family is a patchwork of love. Author Unknown In the crazy quilt of life, I'm glad you're in my block of friends. Author Unknown Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... Susan Polis Shutz Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun. Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. Leigh Hunt A quilt will warm your body and comfort your soul. Author Unknown Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. Jean Paul Richter Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. Buffy Sainte-Marie Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. Sicilian Proverb Music's the medicine of the mind. John A. Logan The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. Mark Twain There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. William P. Merrill Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Dave Barry Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. Author Unknown Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! Constanze “And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?” -Robert Fulghum Your heart is a sun—Joy its stars,Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...Terri Guillemets The wall is silence, the grass is sleep,Tall trees of peace their vigil keep,And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furledPlays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.Ida Rentoul Outhwaite |