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James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing (James Potter, #1)

by G. Norman Lippert (Goodreads Author)

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Phyllis’s Quotes

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

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“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: sense-of-wonder, universe

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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: live-in-the-moment, wonder

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