“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
-Arthur C. Clarke
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
-William Blake
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
-Franz Kafka
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
-Carl Sagan
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
-Rachel Carson
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
-W.B. Yeats
“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
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
-Albert Einstein
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
-William Blake
“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
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
-Albert Einstein
“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”
-Cassandra Clare
“Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?”
-Nicholas Sparks
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
-Bram Stoker
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
-Alice Walker
“Words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
-Jodi Picoult
“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I’ve decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
-Jodi Picoult
