Roots and wings

Social media quote about children, screen shot
Roots and wings.

If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with.

Jess Lair

You only ever get to own one life. Whoever is in yours, consider it a gift.

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In 1969 the educator Jess Lair published a version of the saying which he obtained from a junior or senior college student as mentioned above: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with.

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By jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.