Anne Frank
Diaries Writer
"What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet."
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before."
Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do."
Mary Oliver
Poet
"I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us."
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"There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise."
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"I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful."
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"And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."
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"The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension."
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"Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye."
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"It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity."
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"Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people."
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"Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious."
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"Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability."
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"You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative."
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"The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God. God shows himself by allowing man to establish truth."
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"I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination."
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"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone"
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"Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality."
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"Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything."
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"It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired."
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"How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!"
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".. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive"
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"Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete."
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"Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful."
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