"The universe is full of doors."

Wonder, Possibility, Mystery, Imagination

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"The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"You have to choose your own destiny. You have to choose your own path in life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Wonder, Destiny, Path, Life, Decision

"I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"The wonderful world!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that a signboard had one word spelled wrong, and wondering in his headlong flight why nobody had thought of correcting it. In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles-no matter the imminent peril-these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from common sense and its logic, that we know the world to be good."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Wonder, Life, Tragedy, Curiosity

"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Wonder, Reality, Beauty, Truth, Inspirational

"The beauty of life is a great wonder."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Wonder, Beauty, Life, Great

"O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Wonder, Happiness, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Philosophy begins in wonder."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Wonder, Philosophy

"The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."

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"We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane."

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"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?"

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"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."

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"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

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"The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew."

"You have to choose your own destiny. You have to choose your own path in life."

"I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship..."

"The wonderful world!"

"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"

"The beauty of life is a great wonder."

"O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!"

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"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead."

"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."

"We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane."

"It could be a work of art among vendettas."

"There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story."

"I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria."

"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?"

"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."