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"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
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"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
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"Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents."
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"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
Happiness
"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."
Progress
"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."
Spring
"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."
God
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
Birds
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
Time
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."
Friendship
"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
Happiness
"A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war."
Peace
"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."
Gratitude
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