“Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence”
“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him.”
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
“There was once a king’s son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.”
“It doesn’t matter if you’re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan’s egg!”
“You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.”
“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”
“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…”
“A human life is a story told by God.”
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
“The heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible”
“It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.”
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
“Every man’s life is a fairy tale, written by God’s fingers.”
“Push it myself.” On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock”
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
“Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.”
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
“I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.”
“Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.”
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more”
“Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.”
“I will bow myself before him who is influenced by a noble conviction, and who only desires that which is conducive to good, be he prince or man of the people.”
“But shouldn’t all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?”
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.”
“The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.”
“I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.”
“Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.”
