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βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and the gateway to experiencing wonderβ
β Simone Weil
βWe are the improbable ones and our continued existence is the greatest wonder of the natural worldβ
β Lewis Thomas
βI dream my painting and then I paint my dream filling every brushstroke with wonderβ
β Vincent van Gogh
βResearch is formalized curiosity and it is poking and prying with a purpose born of wonderβ
β Zora Neale Hurston
βThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness where wonder greets you at every turnβ
β John Muir
βIt is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know wonder and humilityβ
β Rachel Carson
βTo live is the rarest thing in the world because most people exist without ever experiencing true wonderβ
β Oscar Wilde
βPeople usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle but the real miracle is walking on earth with wonderβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βThe eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with wonder and a deep sense of aweβ
β Blaise Pascal
βThe beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth and those who follow it find wonder at every turnβ
βThe most elementary questions about language raise deep mysteries that fill linguists with wonderβ
β Noam Chomsky
βWe are all potential fossils still carrying within our bodies the crudities of former existences yet filled with wonderβ
β Loren Eiseley
βGod does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by wonderβ
β Dag Hammarskjold
βIf a child is to keep alive their inborn sense of wonder they need the companionship of at least one adult who can share itβ
βLook at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.β
β Betty Smith
βWisdom begins in wonder.β
β Socrates
βSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was filled with wonderβ
β Mary Oliver
βThe small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and the greatest truths have wonderβ
β Rabindranath Tagore
βAll wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.β
β Samuel Johnson
βAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and magic is simply wonder made visibleβ
β Arthur C. Clarke
βThe eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through that fill us with wonderβ
β Maya Angelou
βThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts through wonderβ
βNo one ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and we are not the same person and this is wonderβ
β Heraclitus
βIt is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows without the humility of wonderβ
β Epictetus
βWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make with wonder as your guideβ
β Jane Goodall
βEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me and look what happens with a wonder like thatβ
β Hafiz
βThe beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.β
β Pierre Abelard
βWe are part of this universe we are in this universe but perhaps more important the universe is in us filling us with wonderβ
β Neil deGrasse Tyson
βWhen I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful something is wrong for beauty is wonderβ
β Buckminster Fuller
βIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer filled with wonderβ
β Albert Camus
βThere is a voice that does not use words and it speaks in the language of wonder that the heart understandsβ
β Rumi
βImagination is the only weapon in the war against reality and wonder is its finest ammunitionβ
β Lewis Carroll
βThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.β
βWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well full of wonder and possibilityβ
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βThe first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist but at the bottom God is waiting with wonderβ
β Werner Heisenberg
βNo need to hurry no need to sparkle no need to be anybody but oneself and wonder at the simple miracle of beingβ
β Virginia Woolf
βThere are no passengers on spaceship earth we are all crew and our mission is filled with wonderβ
βSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be known and the search itself is filled with wonderβ
β Carl Sagan
βThe present is theirs but the future for which I have really worked is mine and the future is full of wonderβ
β Nikola Tesla
βAnd those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music of wonderβ
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βWe are the newest the youngest and the brightest things around and we should feel wonder at ourselvesβ
βIf all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago with wonder intactβ
β E.O. Wilson
βThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe and feel its wonderβ
β Joseph Campbell
βI grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river with wonder as its midwifeβ
β Pablo Neruda
βWhat you seek is seeking you through the magnetic pull of wonder drawing seeker and sought togetherβ
βBe like the sun which pours forth light and wonder upon all without distinctionβ
βOnly that day dawns to which we are awake and there is more day to dawn when we awaken to wonderβ
β Thoreau
βIt was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.β
β Aristotle
βThe world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.β
β G.K. Chesterton
βI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own wonderβ
βThe nitrogen in our DNA the calcium in our teeth the iron in our blood were made in the interiors of collapsing stars and that is wonderβ
βThe eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.β
β Jesus of Nazareth
βThe important thing is not to stop questioning because curiosity and wonder have their own reason for existingβ
β Albert Einstein
βThe more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that it is full of wonderβ
β Freeman Dyson
βIf we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.β
β Unknown
βFor me I am driven by two main philosophies know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others both infused with wonderβ
βThe world is a stage but the play is badly cast and only wonder makes the performance worth watchingβ
βThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it but the way those atoms are put together and that arrangement is wonderβ
βThe human brain has one hundred billion neurons each capable of making thousands of connections creating wonderβ
β Michio Kaku
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.β
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life if not fill it with wonderβ
βWe are all wanderers on this earth and our hearts are full of wonder at the beauty we find hereβ
β Khalil Gibran
βYou are the sky and everything else is just the weather passing through with wonder at its changesβ
β Pema Chodron
βThere are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.β
β Walt Streightiff
βIn one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans and wonder reveals themβ
β Kahlil Gibran
βWhoever does not know how to find his way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.β
βPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with wonder and courageβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.β
β W.B. Yeats
βLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf filled with wonderβ
βThe sun with all those planets revolving around it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else to do filling us with wonderβ
β Galileo Galilei
βFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love and wonderβ
βOnly if we understand can we care and only if we care will we help and understanding begins with wonderβ
βI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.β
βThe creative adult is the child who survived and kept alive the flame of wonder burning brightβ
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βThe moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious world of wonderβ
β Henry Miller
βThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding and wonder is the joy of not yet understandingβ
β Leonardo da Vinci
βThe most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.β
βYour living is determined not so much by what life brings to you but by the wonder you bring to lifeβ
βThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness and if you are attentive you will see it and wonder will ariseβ
βHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives and wonder transforms how we spend each momentβ
β Annie Dillard
βIn all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.β
βThe stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies because they know the night sky is vast enough for all their wonderβ
βI think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contained and full of natural wonderβ
β Walt Whitman
βThe larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.β
βIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and wonder beginsβ
β Wendell Berry
βAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair filling you with wonderβ
βThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step taken in wonder at the path aheadβ
β Lao Tzu
βA mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions for wonder has expanded itβ
β Oliver Wendell Holmes
βI can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing for I think it is much more interesting filled with wonderβ
β Richard Feynman
βOne cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.β
βI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees awaken wonder in every blossomβ
βThe eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.β
β Henri Bergson
βKeep true to the dreams of your youth for they are born of wonder and lead to greatnessβ
β Friedrich Schiller
βWe must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake not by mechanical aids but by an infinite expectation of wonderβ
β Henry David Thoreau
βOne cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.β
β Erich Fromm
βWe are all lonely for something we do not know or cannot name but wonder brings us closer to itβ
β Alan Lightman
βScience is my territory but science fiction is the landscape of wonder where anything is possibleβ
βThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm but wonder is learned in bothβ
β Willa Cather
βWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam and that perspective fills us with wonderβ
βIn a gentle way you can shake the world and wonder is the gentlest force of allβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βThis is my simple religion there is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy just kindness and wonderβ
β Dalai Lama
βThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something worth living for and wonder provides that reasonβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βIf the only prayer you say in your life is thank you that would suffice to fill you with wonderβ
β Meister Eckhart
βI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately and see if I could learn what the woods had to teach about wonderβ
βIt is not down in any map because true places never are but wonder knows the wayβ
β Herman Melville
βTo pay attention this is our endless and proper work and attention is the root of wonderβ
βI wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen because I lacked wonderβ
β John Steinbeck
βThose who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of lifeβ
βBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror and we are the mirror filled with wonderβ
βAttention is the beginning of devotion and devotion is the beginning of wonder that never endsβ
βWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself and that knowledge fills us with wonderβ
βEvery moment of light and dark is a miracle.β
βThe heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.β
β King David
βAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered and the point is to discover them with wonderβ
βRealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have and that it is filled with wonderβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βNature is not our enemy to be raped and conquered but the very fabric of wonder that we are woven intoβ
β Terence McKenna
βHeaven and earth are impartial; they treat all things as straw dogs. The Tao is like a bellows: empty yet inexhaustible.β
β Laozi
βIf the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!β
βEvery artist was first an amateur who looked at the world with fresh eyes filled with wonderβ
βHave patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves with wonderβ
βFor what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun with wonderβ
βSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be known and that fills us with wonderβ
βNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished and this fills the wise with wonderβ
βThe gift of mental power comes from God divine being and if we concentrate our minds on wonder truth is revealedβ
βThe world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate and it fills us with wonder when we see it clearlyβ
βThe meaning of life is just to be alive and that is so plain so obvious and so simple yet everyone rushes past this wonderβ
β Alan Watts
βI cannot cause light but the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam and wonder followsβ
βScience cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because we ourselves are part of the mystery and the wonderβ
β Max Planck
βImagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines all we currently know wonder opens us to everythingβ
βAt the touch of love everyone becomes a poet and at the touch of wonder everyone becomes a philosopherβ
β Plato
βI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library filled with the wonder of infinite storiesβ
β Jorge Luis Borges
βI have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night for wonder conquers all fearβ
βThe world is not only stranger than we suppose it is stranger than we can suppose and that strangeness is wonderβ
βThe universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.β
β J.B.S. Haldane
βThere is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature and each one carries wonderβ
βTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else when approached with wonderβ
β Emily Dickinson
βI have no special talent I am only passionately curious and that curiosity is born of endless wonderβ
βThe more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe the less taste we shall have for destructionβ
βOnce you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been and there you long to return with wonderβ
βArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life and replaces it with wonderβ
β Pablo Picasso
βThe child who concentrates is immensely happy because wonder fills their entire beingβ
β Maria Montessori
βThe most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible and this comprehensibility is wonderβ
β Einstein
βThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge and illuminated by wonderβ
β Bertrand Russell
βLive in each season as it passes and breathe the air drink the drink taste the fruit and surrender to wonderβ
βYou cannot find peace by avoiding life but only by immersing yourself in it with wonderβ
βThe eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me and that mutual seeing is wonderβ
βTo catch a glimpse of the marvelous in the ordinary is the task of art and wonder makes it possibleβ
β Simone de Beauvoir
βI do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it without wonderβ
β Diane Ackerman
βThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence and wonder is its companionβ
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βYour children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself born into wonderβ
βHeaven and earth and I are of the same root. The ten thousand things and I are of one substance.β
β Seng-chao
βIn what terms should we think of these beings who are so like us yet so different and the answer is with wonderβ
βJudge a person by their questions rather than their answers for questions are born of wonderβ
β Voltaire
βOur virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter and when they separate we cease to wonderβ
βLet life happen to you for believe me life is in the right always full of wonder waiting to be discoveredβ
βThe universe is under no obligation to make sense to you but it is beautiful and full of wonderβ
β Brian Cox
βThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious it is the source of all true art and scienceβ
βWisdom begins in wonder and wonder never ceases for the truly curious mindβ
βHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as deadβ
βThe task is not so much to see what no one has seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about what everybody sees with wonderβ
β Erwin Schrodinger
βEvery day is a journey and the journey itself is home when walked with wonderβ
β Matsuo Basho
βBeauty will save the world and wonder is the lens through which beauty is perceivedβ
βThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you but wonder transforms agony into artβ
βSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication and the simplest things hold the deepest wonderβ
βThe world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder itselfβ
βVulnerability is the birthplace of innovation creativity and change and wonder is born alongside themβ
β Brene Brown
βIf the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.β
β Eleonora Duse
βSell your cleverness and buy bewilderment for cleverness is mere opinion but wonder touches truthβ
βThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly yet the transformation is full of wonderβ
βWe must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope for hope is born of wonderβ
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βMusic gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and wonder to everythingβ
βBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.β
βInstructions for living a life: pay attention be astonished tell about it and never lose your wonderβ
βDo not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail of wonder behind youβ
β Emerson
βTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.β
β William Blake
βWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us filled with wonderβ
βThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.β
β AnaΓ―s Nin
βLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards with wonder lighting the wayβ
β Soren Kierkegaard
βIt is our task as we grow older to keep alive the spark of wonder that makes life worth livingβ
βThe only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder and children are the best at itβ
β Jostein Gaarder
βIt is through wonder that people began to philosophize and they continue to do soβ
βThe universe is incredibly wondrous incredibly beautiful and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fathomβ
β Brian Greene
βMen love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.β
βThe universe shows evidence of the operations of mind on three levels and each level fills us with new wonderβ
βTo the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty and a picture of wonder that was never seen beforeβ
βIf you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration with wonderβ
βWe are the local embodiment of a cosmos grown to self-awareness and we have begun to contemplate our origins with wonderβ
βA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving but on experiencing wonder along the wayβ
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks through a sense of wonderβ
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough for wonder in each oneβ
βThe wise one looks at the obvious and sees the profound because wonder reveals what is hidden in plain sightβ
βWonder is the desire for knowledge and the beginning of all understandingβ
β Thomas Aquinas
βIf there is magic on this planet it is contained in water and every drop holds wonderβ
βToday science has confirmed what many have intuitively known that we are all connected in a web of wonderβ
βYour vision will become clear only when you look into your heart and the heart sees with wonderβ
β Carl Jung
βThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.β
βThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty and the wonder it createsβ
βWhen I let go of what I am I become what I might be and wonder fills the space of transformationβ
βLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better through a sense of wonderβ
βWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity and not as a community to which we belong full of wonderβ
β Aldo Leopold
βWisdom cannot be imparted and wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishness but wonder can be sharedβ
β Hermann Hesse
βTrees are sanctuaries and whoever knows how to speak to them and listen to them can learn the truth of wonderβ
βYou are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop and that is the ultimate wonderβ
βThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with wonder in the heartβ
β Helen Keller
βInstinct is something which transcends knowledge and wonder transcends both leading us to truthβ
βYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming and wonder renews itself endlesslyβ
βBe empty of worrying and think of who created thought for wonder lives in that emptinessβ
βEverything has beauty but not everyone sees it because not everyone approaches life with wonderβ
β Confucius
βThe deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain and wonder fills the space betweenβ
βThe world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet.β
β Kobayashi Issa
βIt seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement and the greatest source of wonder and visual beautyβ
β David Attenborough
βAn optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere while the pessimist sees only the red but the truly wise see wonderβ
β Albert Schweitzer
βSell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.β
βNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced with wonderβ
βI am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.β
βMusic can lift us out of depression and move us to tears because it speaks the language of wonder directly to our soulsβ
β Oliver Sacks
βPhilosophy begins in wonder and remains rooted in wonder throughout all inquiryβ
βWonder is the beginning of wisdom.β
βI would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.β
β Gerry Spence
βPhilosophy begins in wonder.β
βLife itself is the most wonderful fairy tale when we approach it with a sense of wonderβ
β Hans Christian Andersen
βEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me because the sun knows wonder needs no repaymentβ
βOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.β
β William Shakespeare
βOne never notices what has been done one can only see what remains to be done and wonder drives us forwardβ
β Marie Curie
βLearning never exhausts the mind because wonder fuels it endlessly with fresh curiosityβ
βTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do so explore dream discover with wonderβ
β Mark Twain
βI paint flowers so they will not die and each one holds the wonder of the universeβ
β Frida Kahlo
βMy brain is only a receiver and in the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge strength and wonderβ
βBeware for I am fearless and therefore powerful but it is wonder that makes me truly aliveβ
β Mary Shelley
βIf the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.β
βThat brain of mine is something more than merely mortal and time will show it filled with wonder and imaginationβ
β Ada Lovelace
βAnd when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it which is itself a wonderβ
β Paulo Coelho
βWhat you seek is seeking you and wonder is the compass that guides you both togetherβ
βI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart and it whispered wonder to meβ
β Sylvia Plath
βTwo things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.β
β Immanuel Kant
βYou give but little when you give of your possessions but when you give with wonder you give of yourselfβ
βSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself filling the watcher with wonderβ
βThe mind that is not baffled is not employed and wonder keeps the mind engagedβ
βFaith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof and wonder is its constant companionβ
βIn some sense all matter is alive and every particle contains a universe of wonderβ
β David Bohm
βWe need the tonic of wildness to restore our sense of wonder and our connection to lifeβ
βWhen we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe which is wonderβ
βIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you and wonder will naturally ariseβ
β Deepak Chopra
βThe universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper and our wonder to deepenβ
β Terry Pratchett
βI have not failed but I have found ten thousand ways that do not work and each one filled me with wonderβ
β Thomas Edison
βGlance at the sun and see the moon gaze at the stars and observe all the green things growing with wonderβ
β Hildegard of Bingen
βThe soul is healed by being with children who remind us what wonder looks like in its purest formβ
β Dostoevsky
βNobody sees a flower really because it is so small and looking takes time and wonder requires time tooβ
β Georgia O Keeffe
βWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality but imagination also gives us the gift of wonderβ
β Seneca
βThe unexamined life is not worth living.β
βThe universe is a green dragon and the fact that anything exists at all is the first and deepest wonderβ
β Brian Swimme
βI thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and wonder everywhereβ
β E.E. Cummings
βThose who do not believe in magic will never find it but those who approach life with wonder find magic everywhereβ
β Roald Dahl
βEverything you can imagine is real and everything real is filled with wonder if you look closely enoughβ
βYou do not take a photograph you make it and in making it you capture the wonder of a momentβ
β Ansel Adams
βDwell on the beauty of life and watch the stars and see yourself running with them in wonderβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.β
β Marcel Proust
βBe like water making its way through cracks carrying wonder into every hidden spaceβ
β Osho
βAnd now let us believe in a long year that is given to us new and untouched and full of things that have never been with wonderβ
βIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly and what is essential is invisible to the eye yet full of wonderβ
βUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy and the ecstasy of understanding is what we call wonderβ
βIt is not down on any map because true places of wonder never are found on ordinary chartsβ
βBeauty is truth truth beauty and both are experienced through a deep sense of wonderβ
β John Keats
βThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.β
βTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your handβ
βAll that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.β
βThe fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and science.β
βThe universe is under no obligation to make sense to you and that itself is a source of wonderβ
βHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness and wonder fills the emptiness that striving leaves behindβ
β Chuang Tzu
βFor the child and for the parent who wishes to guide them it is not half so important to know as to feel wonderβ
βBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them and the world is full of wonderβ
βLife is the dancer and you are the dance and wonder is the music that makes the dance possibleβ
βHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.β
βA sense of wonder is so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against boredomβ
βI do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem like a boy playing on the seashore finding wondersβ
β Isaac Newton
βTwo things are infinite the universe and human stupidity but what is truly infinite is wonderβ
βI have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.β
β John Locke
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know and wonder is the patient teacherβ
βThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common and find wonder everywhereβ
βHeaven and earth are not humane; they treat all things as straw dogs.β
βThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.β
βThere is geometry in the humming of the strings and there is music in the spacing of the spheres filled with wonderβ
β Pythagoras
βLife shrinks or expands in proportion to the amount of wonder we bring to it each dayβ
βThe person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid and devoid of wonderβ
β Jane Austen
βNothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood and understanding begins with wonderβ
βThe heart has its reasons which reason does not know and wonder speaks the language of the heartβ
βI think nature has imagination and wonder far greater than the imagination of any personβ
βLook up at the stars and not down at your feet and try to make sense of what you see with wonderβ
β Stephen Hawking
βWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it that flower becomes your world full of wonderβ
βYou can only lose something that you have but you cannot lose something that you are and wonder is what you areβ
βI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the starsβ
βLook at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!β
β Gerard Manley Hopkins
βThe miracle is not to walk on water the miracle is to walk on the green earth dwelling in wonderβ
βLet the beauty we love be what we do and there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground in wonderβ
βBecause you are alive everything is possible and that possibility is the foundation of all wonderβ
βThe bird fights its way out of the egg and the world is the egg that must be cracked open to reveal wonderβ
βEvery act of perception is to some degree an act of creation and every act of creation is full of wonderβ
βIf your daily life seems poor do not blame it but tell yourself that you are not rich enough to perceive its wonderβ
βTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd and understanding the whole process fills us with wonderβ
βThe feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capableβ
β Richard Dawkins
βThere is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into forms full of wonderβ
β Charles Darwin
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