No object is mysterious.
The mystery is your eye.

Elizabeth Bowen

Imagine that Yes is the only living thing.

e.e. Cummings

There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies show;

Oliphant

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Albert Camus

It is by remaining open to an infinite number of unexpected possibilities which transcend his own imagination and capacity to plan that man really fulfills his own need for freedom.

Thomas Merton

[into great silence ]

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

José Ortega y Gasset