Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

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

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

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

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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.

In an ideal world, 'Doctor Who' makes the whole nation eight years old, with that excitement and engagement and wide-eyedness.

Growing up, I saw the world as an inspiring place full of interesting people.

I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

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.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I find this life so interesting.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

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.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

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

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

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.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

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.