Wonder
- All the wonders you seek are within yourself.--Sir Thomas Browne
- As children we had a sense of wonder. Our eyes were wide open and drinking in the gifts we beheld. Our thirsty souls could not get enough of the wonders of creation. Then, somehow, we grew too old to dream. We tired of the abundance of the world, and stepped away from the banquet of life. The gift of wonder God gave us as children was meant to be kept alive. Instead, we have let wonder go to sleep.--Edward Hays
- Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.--Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)
- Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.--Eugene Ionesco
- Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.--Rumi
- Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure.--Grace King ("The Miracle Chapel" Balcony Stories)
- Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.--Beverly Nichols (The Fool Hath Said)
- Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.--Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)
- The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.--Albert Einstein
- The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.--John Muir
- The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!--Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)
- I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.--Ansel Adams
- I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.--Edward M. Purcell
- If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.--Rachel Carson
- If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I would ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.--Rachel Carson
- In every single moment there is significance. Wonder is sprinkled all around us.--Flavia
- Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit - to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.--Alan Watts (Psychedelics and Religious Experience)
- It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.--Rachel Carso
- It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.--Richard Curtis ("Vincent and the Doctor")
- The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.--John Garrett
- The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.--Ralph W. Sockman
- Life is too wonderful, too full, too short, and strength too limited to contain its wonder.--Ruth Draper
- Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!--Tasha Tudor
- The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.--John Burroughs
- Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.--Anna Quindlen (A Short Guide to a Happy Life)
- Mankind will not perish for want of information, but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.--Abraham Heschel
- Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Works and Days" Society and Solitude)
- The metamorphosis that transforms the lowly worm into a beautiful butterfly reminds us of the loving miracle producing Creator always at work before us, around us and in us. To witness this marvel is to experience our own resurrection, new life, and beginning. --J. Lloyd Ewart (Inspirational Images)
- Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.--George Bernard Shaw (preface to Androcles and the Lion)
- The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world unto itself.--Henry Miller
- The more I wonder, the more I love.--Alice Walker
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.--Albert Einstein
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.--Neil Armstrong
- Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.--St. Augustine
- The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.--Jacques Yves Cousteau
- The search for meaning is not limited to science: it is constant and continuous--all of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no absolute boundaries separating them. One can find meaning in poetry as well as in science in the contemplations of a flower as well as in the grasp of an equation. We can be filled with wonder as we stand under the majestic dome of the night sky and see the myriad lights that twinkle and shine in its seemingly infinite depths. We can also be filled wit awe as we behold the meaning of the formulae that define the propagation of light in space, the formation of galaxies, the synthesis of chemical elements, and the relation of energy, mass and velocity in the physical universe. The mystical perception of oneness and the religious intuition of a Divine intelligence are as much a construction of meaning as the postulation of the universal law of gravitation.--Ervin Laszlo
- Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.--Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
- There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.--Walt Streightiff
- There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.--John Donne
- To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy--and dull fantasy at that--as the real world is strange and wonderful.--Robert A. Heinlein
- True wisdom is indicated by a capacity for wonder. The egotist looks back upon knowing much. The wise man stands on the edge of his knowledge and looks ahead in wonder. Most inventions are born of wonder.--Frank Crane
- Ultimately magic finds you, if you let it.--Tony Wheeler (Fast Company)
- The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.--Eden Phillpots (in The World within the World by Barrow)
- We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.--Sir Thomas Browne (Religio Medici)
- We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.--e. e. cummings
- What happens to the hopes and dreams and wonder with which every child is born? Can it be that in working so hard to prepare them for their future roles in society, we are neglecting to offer a vision of their place in the universe?--Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick (Something More)
- When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.--D. H. Lawrence
- Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.--Jimmy Carter (An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections)
- Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.--Bette Davis (The Lonely Life)
- Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in your before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.--Christina Baldwin (Life's Companion)
- Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.--Robert South
- Wonder is music heard in the heart, is voiceless.--Rosemary Dobson ("Wonder")
- Wonder is the desire for knowledge.--St. Thomas Aquinas
- Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.--Plato
- Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.--Abraham Joshua Heschel
- The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.--Israel Baal Shem
- You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.--Merry Browne
- You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.--Marita Bonner ("On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored")
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