Marvelous Quotes

• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Valleys, Half

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.186, Book Tree

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• We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Insignificant

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• ..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

  Gary Chapman

  Inspirational Love, Past, Needs

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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• Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Light, Soul, World

  William-Bernard Ullathorne (1880). “The Endowments of Man Considered in Their Relation with His Final End”

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Spring, Simple, Miracle

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• Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Life, Adventure, Transitory

  Nikki Giovanni (1983). “Those who ride the night winds”, William Morrow & Co

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• Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Faith, Inspiration, Passion

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• The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Self, Achieve

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Tests, Common

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• Every need brings what's needed.
  Pain bears its cure like a child.
  Having nothing produces provisions.
  Ask a difficult question,
  And the marvelous answer appears.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Children, Pain

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• Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

  Wendell Phillips

  Lying, Ignorance, Giving

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• Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.

  Earl Nightingale

  Law, Strange, Harmony

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• Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

  John Ortberg

  Christian, Jesus, Arguing

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• I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Nice, People, Done

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• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

  Man Ray

  Creativity, Desire, Creation

  Man Ray (1973). “Opera grafica”

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

  Bettina Arndt

  Mother, Husband, Work

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• The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

  Ilka Chase

  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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• Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Dark, Rocks

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.514, GENERAL PRESS

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• Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Passion

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• Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love You, Mean, Weekend

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• To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

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