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Great is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life, and few there be who find it." And
— Joseph Campbell
The Piglet was sitting on the ground at the door of his house blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime or never. He had just discovered that it would be never, and was trying to remember what it was, and hoping it wasn't anything nice, when Pooh came up.
— AA Milne
Let's look for dragons, I said to Pooh. Yes, let's, said Pooh to Me. We crossed the river and found a few Yes, those are dragons all right, said Pooh. As soon as I saw their beaks I knew. That's what they are, said Pooh, said he. That's what they are, said Pooh.
— AA Milne
Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
— Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
— Oscar Wilde
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?
— Pope Benedict XVI
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
— Publilius Syrus
If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.
— Dominic Thiem
Every wall is a door.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson