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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have… — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I used to want to kill myself because I had lost so much of who I knew I was because of all… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I knew then that I had never understood what humans called love. But if that was anything close to the power you… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
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No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
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Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the 'incredible marvel' of being a human. Ives says it expands… — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
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Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Brotherly love is not a tangible commodity. We cannot touch it or weigh it, smell it of taste it. Yet it is… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
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Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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