“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years … the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
― The Sense of Wonder
― The Sense of Wonder
“We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.”
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“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”
― Love and Responsibility
― Love and Responsibility
“Two tools are present to us daily; the one to speculate on the journey of life and the one to discern through the journey of life. The former is extends as far as nature does the latter stretches further than the limits of nature.”
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“Two tools are present to us daily; the one to speculate on the journey of life, the one to discern through the journey of life. The former is extends as far as nature does the latter stretches further than the limits of nature.”
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