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• The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The sun rises and it sets for You. The stars come out for You. Every beautiful thing you see, every wondrous thing you experience, is all there, for You. Take a look around. None of it can exist, without You.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Beautiful, Stars, Ocean

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Helping, Strange

  "Human gullibility beyond belief, - the "paranormal" in the media". The Sunday Times, August 25, 1996.

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• The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Life Changing, Book, Library

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• When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing many sons to glory at such a cost, one is lost in adoring amazement.

  George Wigram

  Son, Thinking, Cost

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• I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Adventure, Profound

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• I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.

  Nikki Sixx

  Smirk, Arms, Welcome

  Nikki Sixx (2011). “This Is Gonna Hurt (Enhanced Edition): Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

  Tove Jansson

  Needs, Imagine, Imagine That

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominsummer Madness”, p.13, Macmillan

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• From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Emptiness

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• Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

  Ann Druyan

  Taken, Eye, Feel Better

  "Billions and Billions". Book by Carl Sagan, epilogue, p. 271, 1997.

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• "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,
  "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;
  And in this change is my invention spent,
  Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Fairness, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Dream, New Year

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• You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Running, Real, Lying

  Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake,
  I disturbed its surface with countless circles.
  But when I reached the depths,
  I became very still.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lakes, Circles, Depth

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• It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

  Steven Galloway

  Forever, Lasts, Life Is

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Diversity, Age

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• Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and superheroes)—but most wondrous of all is his intimate sense of character. Each story is a confession of love betrayed, told with a mournful, austere tenderness as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Character, Love Is, Superhero

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• In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Peyote, Psychedelic

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• These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Heaven, Humanity, Earth

  Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• The concept of an independent "spiritual realm" does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Spiritual, Independent, Thinking

  "The Faith of Scientists : In Their Own Words". Book by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.

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• Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.

  Gerry Spence

  Life And Death, Soul, Religion

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices.

  Johann Cruger

  Heart, Hands, Voice

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• Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Secret, Enchantment

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• Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.

  Rumi

  Stars, Blue, People

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

  Joseph Addison

  Moon, Listening, Stories

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.485

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