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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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'It is often claimed that nothing is impossible, yet I demonstrate the contrary every day.'
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How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
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What a joy it is to be a Cloud, gliding across the azure sky!
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Vow to me you'll never forget: You're more courageous than you perceive, and mightier than you appear, and wiser than you realize.
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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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No one can remain glum with a balloon.
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How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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What a blessing it is to have something that makes parting so difficult.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
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'It's more enjoyable to converse with someone who speaks in plain, straightforward language rather than using complex terms like "What about lunch?'
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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If you reach a hundred years of age, I would want to be a day short so I can always remain in your presence.
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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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'At times,' said Pooh, 'the littlest items occupy the greatest space in your affection.'
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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
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If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.
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Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."
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Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
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One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.
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There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go
straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.
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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
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She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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The things that make me different are the things that make me.
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41.
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
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Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
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Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.
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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
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