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When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed...

—Eckhart Tolle

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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

—Francis Bacon

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When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the...

—Harold Kemp

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Rarely do wonder tales end unhappily. They triumph over death. The tale begins with “Once upon a time” or “Once there was” and never really ends when it ends. The ending is actually the beginning....

—Jack Zipes

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I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.

—M.F. Moonzajer

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Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment

—Munia Khan

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To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the...

—John Van Dyke

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…everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous – to be reminded of how they once saw the world …

—John Geddes

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Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.”This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul...

—SARK

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To love and be loved is a wonder.

—Peggy Sue

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Oh, Hank,” Susan whispered, “their wings are furry.””Oh, James,” Harriet whispered, “their hands are kind.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That’s the advantage of space. It’s big enough to hold practically anything,...

—Terry Pratchett

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

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She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

—Cassandra Clare

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He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as...

—C.J. Cherryh

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I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It’s the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my imagination becomes a weightless wonder.

—Jaeda DeWalt

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To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

—George MacDonald

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The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful...

—G.K. Chesterton

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I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.

—Jacqueline Carey

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Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

—Oswald Chambers

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MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we...

—Mary Oliver

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I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad things that happened so much that you overlooked the immensely disproportionate majority of...

—Ken MacLeod

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Zen has been called the “religion before religion,” which is to say that anyone can practice, including those committed to another faith. And that phrase evokes that natural religion of our early childhood, when heaven...

—Peter Matthiessen

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

—William Blake

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I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like...

—R.J. Palacio

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Singing at the Edge of Need by Susan Laughter Meyers (fragment)Three things I turned my back to: light,the past, the trunk of an old tree.One by one each unfastened itself.To sit is to present when...

—Susan Laughter Meyers

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When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that...

—Alice Hamilton

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Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

—Andy Mulcahy

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The more I love, the more I find opportunites to love and wonder.

—Debasish Mridha

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I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes.

—Jarod Kintz

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Many people wonder, is my love a llama—or an alpaca? The answer, is yes.

—Jarod Kintz

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We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

—Elizabeth Gilbert

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Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its bed by 1/100th of an inch each year (about the thickness of one...

—Keith Meldahl

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In that light, philosophy is not so much–or not simply–‘the love of wisdom,’ but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to...

—Michael Munro

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I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get...

—Mark Twain

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I’ve wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they’ve been, and what the moments of their...

—Markus Zusak

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No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

—Kingsley Amis

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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

—Walt Whitman

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Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only...

—Thomas A. Edison

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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s...

—Vera Nazarian

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

—Albert Einstein

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Those, therefore, who effect to despise “profane” Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of...

—Aleister Crowley

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I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

—Brendan Kennelly

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While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.

—Israelmore Ayivor

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If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?

—Jay Woodman

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Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it is difficult to determine the ideological intention of the narrator, and...

—Jack Zipes

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The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain’d witches, who had ink instead...

—Lemony Snicket

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I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?

—Munia Khan

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Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

—Neil deGrasse

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