“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out…”

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British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947–2016

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

“Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.”

Stephen Colbert book I Am America (And So Can You!)

Source: I Am America

“There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.”

Christopher Paul Curtis book Bud, Not Buddy

Source: Bud, Not Buddy

“Do you curse where you come from?
Do you swear in the night?
Will it mean much to you
If I treat you right?
Do you like what you're doing?
Would you do it some more?
Or will you stop once and wonder
What you're doing it for?
Hey slow Jane, make sense.
Slow, slow, Jane, cross the fence.”

Nick Drake (1948–1974) British singer-songwriter

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Song lyrics, Bryter Later (1970)

“The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

“If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty much the way I always think.”

Donna Strickland (1959) Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel prize winner

In [Casey, Liam, 'We are marching forward': Canadian scientist becomes third woman to win Nobel Prize in physics, https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/we-are-marching-forward-canadian-scientist-becomes-third-woman-to-win-nobel-prize-in-physics-1.4117566, 5 October 2018, CTV News Toronto, October 2, 2018]