#wonder

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#conan #fantasy #kingdoms #wonder #age

Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#wonders #age

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#bees #going #me #old thing #simple

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#beauty #music #wonder #art

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods

The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey. ↗

— Stephanie Lovett Stoffel

#art

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#taj-mahal #timeless #wonder #art

ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#change

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it. ↗

— Patti Davis

#did #die #how #leave #life

It’s my birthday, who could be calling me? Probably my clone, wondering why he hasn’t been born yet. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #born #clone #communicate #communication