#won

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. ↗

— Plato

#thinking #wisdom #wondering #philosophical

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#identity #loneliness #identity

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#hard-boiled #wonderland #world #manners

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#irony #wonder #mankind

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie? ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#salvation #signs #wonders #life

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#could #give #hurt #knowing #materialized

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ↗

— Anne Frank

#how #improve #moment #need #nobody

I had a nose tickle. ↗

— Chris Pine

#what-a-wonderful-man #inspirational

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired. ↗

— Melanie Benjamin

#literature #loss #love #love

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything. ↗

— David Wenham

#anything #earth #forget #i #memory