“Part of Me is Every Age / You’re Unique, Like Everyone Else”
“A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: ‘I’m praying, but I can’t think of exactly the right words, so I’m just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I’m thinking.’” (Charles B. Vaughan)
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“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.” (Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality)
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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” (Albert Einstein)
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“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year- old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise man when it’s appropriate to be a wise man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.” (Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson)
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“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” (George Burns)
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“Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you’re sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.” (Max Lucado, When God Whispers Your Name)
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“Always remember that you’re unique.
Just like everyone else.” (Alison Boulter)
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