I am reading Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton right now and this passage stuck out and I just had to share it with you all. I will probably be adding more Chesterton to my blog as time goes on. Enjoy :)
If your life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy-tale lies in this: that the price has wonder which just stops short of being fear. If he is afraid of the giant, there is an end of him; but also if he is not astonished at the giant, there is the end to the fairy-tale. The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy. So our attitude to the giant of the world must not merely be increasing delicacy or increasing contemppt: it must be one particular proportion of the two - which is exactly right.
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventuress and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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