The World of Wonders a Record of Things Wonderful in Nature Science and Art
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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Bloom,
Concord Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
― Auguries of Innocence
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to come across beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
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"The more than clearly we tin can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less gustation nosotros shall have for destruction."
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"Await at everything ever as though yous were seeing it either for the first or terminal time: Thus is your time on world filled with celebrity."
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine flick every day of his life, in society that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the man soul."
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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which nosotros are permitted to remain children all our lives."
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best twenty-four hours in the twelvemonth."
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"The important thing is non to terminate questioning. Marvel has its own reason for existing."
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"Wonder is the start of wisdom."
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"You'll never find a rainbow if you lot're looking downwardly"
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"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be built-in. The potential people who could accept been hither in my place but who volition in fact never see the light of twenty-four hours outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people immune by our Deoxyribonucleic acid so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you lot and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable render to that prior state from which the vast bulk accept never stirred?"
― Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Ambition for Wonder
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
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"One time there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the bister current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its condign. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could non be put dorsum. Not be made right over again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than homo and they hummed of mystery."
― The Road
"I am all in a bounding main of wonders. I dubiousness; I fear; I remember strange things, which I dare not confess to my ain soul."
― Dracula
"Remember to await up at the stars and not down at your anxiety. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however hard life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that y'all don't just give up."
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"Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero."
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"Thus, from the state of war of nature, from dearth and decease, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the college animals, direct follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into 1; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on co-ordinate to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms near cute and well-nigh wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
― The Origin of Species
"She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did at present know him at all?"
― Clockwork Prince
"The near beautiful thing we can feel is the mysterious. It is the source of all true fine art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good equally dead —his eyes are airtight. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it exist with fear, has as well given ascent to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the nigh radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can encompass only in their most archaic forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of truthful religiousness."
― Living Philosophies
"I call up us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. Merely you never know nothing more than about the large things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I dearest."
― The Color Majestic
"Do y'all ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?"
― A Walk to Remember
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
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"Wait at everything always as though you were seeing information technology either for the first or last fourth dimension: Thus is your time on earth filled with celebrity."
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
"words are like nets - we hope they'll comprehend what we mean, simply nosotros know they tin can't mayhap concur that much joy, or grief, or wonder."
― Change of Heart
"If you celebrate your differentness, the world volition, too. It believes exactly what you lot tell information technology—through the words yous utilize to describe yourself, the deportment you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the earth you are ane-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated."
― Lit From Inside: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
"Kids think with their brains croaky wide open up; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
― My Sister's Keeper
"I exercise not care what comes after; I accept seen the dragons on the current of air of morn."
― The Uttermost Shore
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