Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Wonder

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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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)
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 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