CURATED COLLECTION

Approaching Life With Wonder

The capacity to be astonished by the world is worth protecting at almost any cost.

50 quotes found

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I desire that my eyes may always keep the candid innocence of children.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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The power of finding beauty in humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The world is beautiful, and I am glad I was born.

—Jaroslav SeifertPoet & Author

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Everything beautiful is also slightly absurd, like the world itself.

—Bohumil HrabalWriter & King

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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Life, like a hummingbird, suspended in the instant, vibrating without knowing why.

—Julio CortázarNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift—there is nothing small about it.

—Florence NightingaleReformer

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The world is a magnificent book, but you have to read it.

—Elif ShafakNovelist

Contemporary ERA • MENA

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The secret to life is in the flavor, not the ingredients.

—Laura EsquivelNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

—Emily DickinsonPoet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected.

—Elif ShafakNovelist

Digital Age ERA • MENA

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To live is like loving: surrender body and soul, without fear.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

—Leonardo da VinciPolymath

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

—Thich Nhat HanhActivist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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Aloha means recognizing the sacred in every person, every place, every moment.

—Manulani Aluli MeyerScholar

Digital Age ERA • Oceania

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Happy are those who love what they are, and not what they appear.

—Marie de GournayWriter, Editor & Feminist

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams.

—Roald DahlNovelist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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The difference between fiction and belief lies in some sentiment or feeling.

—David HumePhilosopher & Historian

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

—Mary OliverPoet

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Sudden summer shower, a child's hand claps through the puddle.

—Yosa BusonPoet & Painter

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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Music can move the soul, exciting or calming it as needed by its nature.

—Al-FarabiPhilosopher, Mathematician & Theorist

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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