#chi

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#chore #duty #gift #offered #presented

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#babe ruth #everything #except #had #i

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #happiness #life #melancholy #sadness

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#almost #ambition #anything #certain #might

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#coaching #could #did #germany #i

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day. ↗

— Celine Dion

#children #day #every #every day #family

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth. ↗

— Scott Dixon

#ask #believe #child #children #come

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. ↗

— James Dobson

#built #casual #children #foundation #future

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#doing #none #outlining #people #planning