“Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.” MindMemoriesWonderRegretBreathsSurfaceDisappearVividHere And ThereSinkingOf My MindPebblesFireflyQuicksandVignettes Author:Susan Kay
“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.” YearsMadeSchoolGamesEasyEducationWonderFocusTeacherIndustryDollarsProfitEducationalSurfaceAidsBillionsCardsVisualsTapeFlashLots Of MoneyTextbooksManualsAudioCassettesAudio Visual Book:Marva Collins Way Source: Marva Collins Way
“For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.” YearsLooksDifferentPastWonderFiguresSurface Author:Robin Wasserman
“Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.” IfsKnowsBelieveSongNaturalLinesSleepWonderMagicMysteryDepthSurfaceHonestlyGalleryAlleysClaireSleeping InVagrantsMonet Author:Charles de Lint
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.” IfsWorldPhilosophyShowsLyingWishInterestAnswersWonderIncreaseAskingSurfaceDaily LifeAsking QuestionsStrangenessBelow The Surface Book:The Problems of Philosophy Source: The Problems of Philosophy