12 Quotes by Paul Pen

These fireflies that you say you see are like the chick that hatched in our hands,” she explained.“Huh?”“I gave you a very special power the night you brought me the egg. I taught you to see things like I have to see them,” she said. She laid a wrinkly finger on my forehead. “Imagining them. And I see you’ve managed to make good use of that power.”I let out a sigh of wonder.“There’s no creature more amazing than one that can make its own light,” Grandma went on.

The fireflies flew up into the sky, free.I watched them until I could no longer tell them apart from the stars.

I smile when he waves his arms among dozens of dots of light.Because I know the light will always belong to people like him.And those unwilling to look beyond their own little world will be left in the dark.

A door loses its meaning if you don’t ever go through it. It becomes a wall.

La mejor manera de superar un miedo, es enfrentarse a el.

No, I’m a mother. It’s easy to feel compassion when you understand that everyone’s the child of a woman like you.

Maybe the day has come when his desire to know is stronger than his fear of the unknown.

And those unwilling to look beyond their own little world will be left in the dark.

A very simple trick that anyone can do. It consists of being glad for what you’ve got instead of being unhappy about what you don’t have.