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You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything's old hat. They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

You have to choose your path. You have to decide what you wish to do. You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually know deep down that we are indeed eternal. We come into this world to live a life, to experience it, from somewhere else, some other plane, but we are programmed by all around us to deny or forget this - until one day we may remember again. That feeling of blissful reconnection with our source can be invoked through nature, beautiful writing or art or music, any detailed craft or work of discovery or personal dedication, meditation or other mentally balancing practice, or even through religious experience if there is a pure communion (not a pretence of it). But we should not yearn to return too soon, we should accept that we have come here for the duration of each life, and revel in the chance to learn and grow on this splendid planet. We can draw a deep sense of being-ness. peace, and love from this connection, which will sustain us through any trial. Once nurtured, this becomes stronger than any other connection, so of course our relationships here are most joyful when they allow us the personal freedom to spend time developing and celebrating that connection. Our deepest friendships form with those we can share such time and experiences with - discussing, meditating, immersing ourselves in nature, or creating our music, art, written or other works. Our journeys here are voyages of discovery, opening out the wonders within and all around. What better companions could we have than those who are able to fully share in such delights with us?

You ought to write down the glow of thoughts as it’s ignites.

You're a thousand small wonders, Kylie, love, adding up to one grand miracle.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

A friend of yours has, I think, a huge collection of sock monkeys. I'd love to show those. When I go to people's homes and I see the little things they're obsessed with, I wonder why no one has ever exhibited them.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

A good walk every day does wonders for my soul.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

A little faith can do wonders.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?'

Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized.

And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?