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• It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Sky, Flying

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• Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

  C. S. Lewis

  Abnormal, Norm

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.

  John Lahr

  Grateful, Mind, States

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Creativity, Ideas, Imagination

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• Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

  George Bailey

  Merry Christmas, Old Buildings, House

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• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  Walt Disney

  Death, Dream, Inspiration

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• The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Life, Beauty, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

  Henry Travers

  Life, Movie, Christmas

  "Fictional character: Clarence Oddbody". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Book, Reality, Historical

  Jean Anouilh (1956). “Time Remembered: A Romantic Comedy”

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• Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Cheating, Philosophy

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• What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!

  Alistair Begg

  People, Kind, Grants

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2015

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• Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Motivation, Creativity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

  Fred Allen

  Food, Cooking, Littles

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

  Robert Harling

  Love, Friendship, Special

  Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.

  John Daido Loori

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• Every moment is a fresh new beginning... a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the Universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

  Russell Brand

  New Beginnings, Journey, Reality

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• I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

  Leo Lionni

  Change, Children, Book

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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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• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.

  Michael Atiyah

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: 2002-2013”, p.267, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Spring, Simple, Miracle

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• People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.

  Bob Losure

  Believe, Moving, Optimistic

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• With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

  Akif Pirincci

  Cat, Thinking, Sound

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• Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Love You, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Feb 12, 2012

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• The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

  Robin Sharma

  Happiness, Powerful, Mind

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.46, Jaico Publishing House

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