#won

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#balanced #dance #day #draw #every

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#memory #wisdom #wonder #dreams

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched. ↗

— Diet Eman

#purity #wonder #diet

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. ↗

— Betty Smith

#wonder #time

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Socrates

#wisdom #wonder #wisdom

But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#people

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#need #quiet #remember #than #them

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#mad-hatter #nonsense #nothing