“I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.” YearsMadeNextExistenceMinutesAwarenessOne DayCuriosityImpossibilityOne Minute Author:Emile M. Cioran
“Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.” KnowsInspirationalChildrenHas BeensStatesEnoughSpiritualStarsJourneyAwarenessActivityMiracleCuriosityDetailsCracksInvitesPausesMiraculousAntsPonderingSpiritual JourneySidewalk Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantEndsHappensKidsWaterAwarenessLuckyConcernedHistoricalCuriosityErasTensionHyperGrandkids Author:Lucy Corin
“She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.” WorldMadeReasonGivenAwarenessReaderCuriosityOddContradictionContradictoryUnafraidVibrancyOddness Author:Curtis Sittenfeld