Daphne Guinness Quotes

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I find most children quite inspiring.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.