A miracle is nothing more or less than this...
Anyone who has come into a knowledge
of his true identity,
of his oneness with
the all-pervading wisdom and power,
this makes it possible for laws higher
than the ordinary mind knows of
to be revealed to him.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous 
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools.
The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
- Haim G. Ginott
The dream was always running ahead of me.
To catch up, to live for a moment
in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- Anais Nin
You can create miracles in your own life,
and in the lives of those around you -
because you are a miracle,
and you are connected to the source of all miracles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
What is a miracle? To some, it is an act of God.
To others, something amazing, extraordinary, or unexpected.
To me, Life is a miracle.
Everything that happens is a miracle.
There is no reason for me to exist as I do -
no reason for humanity, the universe, or the laws of Nature.
Energy, mass, gravity and the rest of existence
are all so improbable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- Marianne Williamson
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Eternity:
I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being
My curiosity unbound, I test the limits
of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end which is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It takes a big cat to be number 2.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
God always takes the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
It takes more than just a good looking body.
You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
- Epictetus
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
A son is a son till he takes him a wife,
a daughter is a daughter all of her life.
- Irish Traditional
If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
He is a drunkard who takes more than
three glasses though he be not drunk.
- Epictetus
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind;
it requires the same effort of the brain
that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs
and does not help to solve them, is no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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