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50 Life Changing Quotes From Children's Books That Adults Can Learn A Lot From

It's time to relive your childhood. 
Holly Riordan
June 9, 2016
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
— Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
Tagged: Possibility, Dreams
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Tagged: Mistakes, Learning, Success, Failure
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
— A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Communication
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
— A. A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
Tagged: Dreams, Love, Dating
“It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.”
— Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
Tagged: Memories, Past
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
— Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus Paperback 3-Book Boxed Set
Tagged: Life, Living
“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
— Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus Paperback 3-Book Boxed Set
Tagged: Love, confusing, Life
“You are mine, and I am yours, and no one in the world can alter that.”
— Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
Tagged: Love, Dating, soulmates, Fear of losing someone
“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
Tagged: Living, Life, Freedom
“But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
Tagged: Giving, Friendship, Love
“To travel is to live.”
— Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)
Tagged: travel, Living, The World
“What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.”
— Stephen Mitchell, The Frog Prince
“Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.”
— Stephen Mitchell, The Frog Prince
Tagged: Happily Ever After, fairy tales, Dreams
“It’s a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.”
— David Duchovny, Holy Cow: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Competition, Pain, dignity, Suffering
“Hate is like a poison you make for your enemy that you end up swallowing yourself.”
— David Duchovny, Holy Cow: A Novel
Tagged: poison, Hatred
“You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.”
— Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1
Tagged: Dedication, differences
“They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.”
— Adam Rex, The True Meaning of Smekday
Tagged: People, humanity, stupidity
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
— J.M. Barrie, The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) (The Annotated Books)
Tagged: Dreams, hopes, Success
“Time is chasing after all of us.”
— J.M. Barrie, The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) (The Annotated Books)
Tagged: Time, Growing Up, Change
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
— J.M. Barrie, The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) (The Annotated Books)
Tagged: Happiness, Love, Passion, Work