Eye of the soul

And we have snow. It's not much, but the air smells of cold. You can feel the Christmas spirit. I can't wait to bake gingerbread cookies and decorate our tiny Xmas tree.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan (via the-exchange)

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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan (via quote-book)

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl SaganĀ  (via quote-book)

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan (via quote-book)