One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...
he was a beautiful butterfly!
he was a beautiful butterfly!
On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon.
That night he had a stomach ache.
That night he had a stomach ache.
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Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book.
I don't believe in fate. I believe we have more control than we think and that every action has a reaction. After all, the most minor event, even a butterfly flapping its wings, can change everything.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."
"But nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense."
People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.
I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I've been.
The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.
Give a glittering scale to each one of the other fish. You'll no longer be the most beautiful fish in the sea but you'll discover how to be happy!
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all.
Once there was a boy. He was, let us say, something like fourteen years old; long and loose jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief.
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And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
I am the Lorax, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on their way out!
You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store
What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store
What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
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Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.
The Robber Hotzenplotz works hard at his job, waking early to hide in the woods and waylay new victims.
How will the world change if we do not question it?
It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.
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Children's Books
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Butterflies
Pippi Longstocking
Winnie the Pooh
The Rainbow Fish
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Where the Wild Things Are
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