1939
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
102 min
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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