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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Two, Awe And Wonder, Law

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

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• When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Elements, Wonder Of Life

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• The more I wonder, the more I love.

  Alice Walker

  Love, Marriage, Wonder Of Life

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• Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.

  Samuel Ullman

  Sweet, Stars, Heart

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

  Bette Davis

  Acting, Stage Actors, Creation

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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• I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Home, Butterfly, Night

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• Think and wonder, wonder and think.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• To wonder is to begin to understand.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Children, Light, Rose

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• I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.

  R. J. Palacio

  Thinking, Ovation, World

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.240, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mothers Day, Mom, Sweet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

  Rachel Carson

  Beauty, Nature, Humility

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• Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Feelings

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• Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

  Sophocles

  Power, Men, Wind

  Sophocles (1905). “Tragedies”

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• Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Tree, Stones

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

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• From wonder into wonder existence opens.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taoism, Awakening

  "The Way of Life, According to Laotzu" by Witter Bynner, 1944.

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• I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Appreciate, Natural

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.105, Read Books Ltd

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• To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Challenges, Sublime, Mundane

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• To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Beauty, Wise, Knowledge

  Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

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• Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

  R. J. Palacio

  Be Kind, Enough, Should

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.305, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.

  R. J. Palacio

  Memories, Hero, Egyptian Pyramids

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

  R. J. Palacio

  Doctors, Sound

  R J Palacio (2012). “Wonder”, p.106, Random House

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