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"Life is a bit like a sweet & toy & art & curiosity shop - all in one - only the best bits are free. If you look at all the things you can cherish it helps to balance everything else. Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life."
"The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears."
"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 of meteors. Now that we see it for the hundredth time we call it, in the hideous and blasphemous phrase of Wordsworth, "the light of common day." We are inclined to increase our claims. We are inclined to demand six suns, to demand a blue sun, to demand a green sun. Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that original dark, in which we have neither sight nor expectation, we can give no hearty and childlike praise to the splendid sensationalism of things."
"Tell me where the swans go in the winterI need to know if the mute ones can sing.Tell me why stars fall from the skyI need to know if it is luck they bring.Tell me why feathers land near youI need to know if you've injured your wing.Now, tell me where you end, my angelFor I no longer know where I begin."
Explore more quotes by Charles de Lint
"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."
"Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind."
"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."
"Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?"
"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."
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