Hey, I’m an upstander – not a bystander!
We need to let him, help him, make him grow up.
Doctors have come from distant cities just to see me stand over my bed disbelieving what they’re seeing They say I must be one of the wonders of god’s own creation and as far as they can see they can offer no explanation – NATALIE MERCHANT, “Wonder.
We’re suing the school!” said Mom excitedly.
Mom says the farting nurse turned out to be a very nice woman.
After we left the classroom, I said: “Dude, thanks.
The thing is, there are always going to be kids like Julian who are jerks. But if a little kid like Jamie, who’s usually a nice enough kid, can be that mean, then a kid like August doesn’t stand a chance in middle school.
And that’s when I punched him. Right in the mouth.
Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile.
Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do – David Bowie, “Space Oddity.
Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. – John Merrick in Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man.
You are beautiful no matter what they say Words can’t bring you down You are beautiful in every single way Yes, words can’t bring you down – Christina Aguilera, “Beautiful.
Even if we can’t see it, the sun never stops shining.
Are you from Louisiana?” I asked. “No, um,” he answered, pushing up his glasses. “I’m from Brooklyn.
I’m from Brooklyn,” I said, and we both started laughing hysterically.
She has no idea of the grandeur that lies inside your mind, Silas. I’ve known people like that my whole life. They have no imagination. No fire in their minds. So they try to limit the world to the paltry things they can understand, but the world cannot be limited. The world is infinite! And you, young as you are, already know that. He held up my pinkie.
Jack, sometimes you don’t have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.
Just like it never, ever mattered to Daisy.
How pathetic that I felt safer in someone else’s house than in my own, right?
If every single person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary – the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.
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