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âIn the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer filled with wonderâ
â Albert Camus
âYou cannot find peace by avoiding life but only by immersing yourself in it with wonderâ
â Virginia Woolf
âThe universe shows evidence of the operations of mind on three levels and each level fills us with new wonderâ
â Freeman Dyson
âThat brain of mine is something more than merely mortal and time will show it filled with wonder and imaginationâ
â Ada Lovelace
âAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered and the point is to discover them with wonderâ
â Galileo Galilei
âScience is my territory but science fiction is the landscape of wonder where anything is possibleâ
âMusic can lift us out of depression and move us to tears because it speaks the language of wonder directly to our soulsâ
â Oliver Sacks
âYou are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop and that is the ultimate wonderâ
â Rumi
âPeople usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle but the real miracle is walking on earth with wonderâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âHave patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves with wonderâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âA sense of wonder is so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against boredomâ
â Rachel Carson
âThose who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of lifeâ
âThe eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with wonder and a deep sense of aweâ
â Blaise Pascal
âNo need to hurry no need to sparkle no need to be anybody but oneself and wonder at the simple miracle of beingâ
âTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life if not fill it with wonderâ
â Mary Oliver
âI wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never seen because I lacked wonderâ
â John Steinbeck
âThe eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me and that mutual seeing is wonderâ
â Meister Eckhart
âThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.â
â Marcel Proust
âThe butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.â
â Rabindranath Tagore
âThe feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capableâ
â Richard Dawkins
âAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair filling you with wonderâ
â Kahlil Gibran
âThe 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 wonderâ
âI would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.â
â Gerry Spence
âThe beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth and those who follow it find wonder at every turnâ
â Simone Weil
âRealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have and that it is filled with wonderâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âWhen I let go of what I am I become what I might be and wonder fills the space of transformationâ
â Lao Tzu
âThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding and wonder is the joy of not yet understandingâ
â Leonardo da Vinci
âThe world is not only stranger than we suppose it is stranger than we can suppose and that strangeness is wonderâ
â Terence McKenna
âTo pay attention this is our endless and proper work and attention is the root of wonderâ
âThe world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder itselfâ
â G.K. Chesterton
âThe universe is incredibly wondrous incredibly beautiful and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fathomâ
â Brian Greene
âThe most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible and this comprehensibility is wonderâ
â Einstein
âLife is the dancer and you are the dance and wonder is the music that makes the dance possibleâ
âYou are the sky and everything else is just the weather passing through with wonder at its changesâ
â Pema Chodron
âSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication and the simplest things hold the deepest wonderâ
âFor 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 wonderâ
â Neil deGrasse Tyson
âMy brain is only a receiver and in the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge strength and wonderâ
â Nikola Tesla
âWe need the tonic of wildness to restore our sense of wonder and our connection to lifeâ
â Henry David Thoreau
âSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be known and the search itself is filled with wonderâ
â Carl Sagan
âAttention is the beginning of devotion and devotion is the beginning of wonder that never endsâ
âLife can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards with wonder lighting the wayâ
â Soren Kierkegaard
âIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly and what is essential is invisible to the eye yet full of wonderâ
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âThe most elementary questions about language raise deep mysteries that fill linguists with wonderâ
â Noam Chomsky
âImagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines all we currently know wonder opens us to everythingâ
â Albert Einstein
âBeauty is truth truth beauty and both are experienced through a deep sense of wonderâ
â John Keats
âIn every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks through a sense of wonderâ
â John Muir
âWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us filled with wonderâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âIf all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago with wonder intactâ
â E.O. Wilson
âThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts through wonderâ
âAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and magic is simply wonder made visibleâ
â Arthur C. Clarke
âAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and the gateway to experiencing wonderâ
âOur virtues and our failings are inseparable like force and matter and when they separate we cease to wonderâ
âI think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contained and full of natural wonderâ
â Walt Whitman
âIn all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.â
â Aristotle
âYour children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself born into wonderâ
âWhen we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe which is wonderâ
âNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished and this fills the wise with wonderâ
âEvery artist was first an amateur who looked at the world with fresh eyes filled with wonderâ
âLive in each season as it passes and breathe the air drink the drink taste the fruit and surrender to wonderâ
â Thoreau
âVulnerability is the birthplace of innovation creativity and change and wonder is born alongside themâ
â Brene Brown
âI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart and it whispered wonder to meâ
â Sylvia Plath
âI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own wonderâ
â Hafiz
âThe world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.â
âBe like water making its way through cracks carrying wonder into every hidden spaceâ
â Osho
âWisdom begins in wonder and wonder never ceases for the truly curious mindâ
â Socrates
âTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else when approached with wonderâ
â Emily Dickinson
âThe 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 wonderâ
âWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself and that knowledge fills us with wonderâ
âThere are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.â
â Walt Streightiff
âWhat you seek is seeking you and wonder is the compass that guides you both togetherâ
âAll that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.â
â Unknown
âBecause you are alive everything is possible and that possibility is the foundation of all wonderâ
âFor what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun with wonderâ
âMen love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.â
âIf we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.â
âThe universe is under no obligation to make sense to you but it is beautiful and full of wonderâ
â Brian Cox
âNobody sees a flower really because it is so small and looking takes time and wonder requires time tooâ
â Georgia O Keeffe
âSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself filling the watcher with wonderâ
â Matsuo Basho
âThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.â
âAnd those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music of wonderâ
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you and wonder will naturally ariseâ
â Deepak Chopra
âDo not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail of wonder behind youâ
â Emerson
âIf your daily life seems poor do not blame it but tell yourself that you are not rich enough to perceive its wonderâ
âWe are all lonely for something we do not know or cannot name but wonder brings us closer to itâ
â Alan Lightman
âWe are the local embodiment of a cosmos grown to self-awareness and we have begun to contemplate our origins with wonderâ
â Michio Kaku
âLife itself is the most wonderful fairy tale when we approach it with a sense of wonderâ
â Hans Christian Andersen
âI cannot cause light but the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam and wonder followsâ
â Annie Dillard
âEvery act of perception is to some degree an act of creation and every act of creation is full of wonderâ
âI have no special talent I am only passionately curious and that curiosity is born of endless wonderâ
âHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness and wonder fills the emptiness that striving leaves behindâ
â Chuang Tzu
âThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you but wonder transforms agony into artâ
â Maya Angelou
âThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.â
âPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with wonder and courageâ
âIt 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 humilityâ
âIf a child is to keep alive their inborn sense of wonder they need the companionship of at least one adult who can share itâ
âOnly if we understand can we care and only if we care will we help and understanding begins with wonderâ
â Jane Goodall
âThe deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain and wonder fills the space betweenâ
â Khalil Gibran
âThe soul is healed by being with children who remind us what wonder looks like in its purest formâ
â Dostoevsky
âWonder is the beginning of wisdom.â
âNo one will protect what they do not care about and no one will care about what they have never experienced with wonderâ
â David Attenborough
âIf the only prayer you say in your life is thank you that would suffice to fill you with wonderâ
âThe small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and the greatest truths have wonderâ
âThose who do not believe in magic will never find it but those who approach life with wonder find magic everywhereâ
â Roald Dahl
âThe meaning of life is just to be alive and that is so plain so obvious and so simple yet everyone rushes past this wonderâ
â Alan Watts
âThe important thing is not to stop questioning because curiosity and wonder have their own reason for existingâ
âThe universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper and our wonder to deepenâ
â Terry Pratchett
âThe child who concentrates is immensely happy because wonder fills their entire beingâ
â Maria Montessori
âThe universe is under no obligation to make sense to you and that itself is a source of wonderâ
âUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy and the ecstasy of understanding is what we call wonderâ
âThe mind that is not baffled is not employed and wonder keeps the mind engagedâ
â Wendell Berry
âThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe and feel its wonderâ
â Joseph Campbell
âOne cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.â
âThe universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.â
â J.B.S. Haldane
âThere are no passengers on spaceship earth we are all crew and our mission is filled with wonderâ
â Buckminster Fuller
âGod 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 wonderâ
â Dag Hammarskjold
âFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love and wonderâ
âScience cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because we ourselves are part of the mystery and the wonderâ
â Max Planck
âAnd 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 wonderâ
âThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence and wonder is its companionâ
â Jiddu Krishnamurti
âYou give but little when you give of your possessions but when you give with wonder you give of yourselfâ
âPhilosophy begins in wonder and remains rooted in wonder throughout all inquiryâ
â Plato
âWe are the improbable ones and our continued existence is the greatest wonder of the natural worldâ
â Lewis Thomas
âI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees awaken wonder in every blossomâ
â Pablo Neruda
âThe universe is a green dragon and the fact that anything exists at all is the first and deepest wonderâ
â Brian Swimme
âGlance at the sun and see the moon gaze at the stars and observe all the green things growing with wonderâ
â Hildegard of Bingen
âEverything you can imagine is real and everything real is filled with wonder if you look closely enoughâ
â Pablo Picasso
âLook at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.â
â Betty Smith
âI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the starsâ
âThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge and illuminated by wonderâ
â Bertrand Russell
âNo 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 wonderâ
â Heraclitus
âThe more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture the more evidence I find that it is full of wonderâ
âArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life and replaces it with wonderâ
âLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better through a sense of wonderâ
âLet your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf filled with wonderâ
âThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common and find wonder everywhereâ
âThe moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious world of wonderâ
â Henry Miller
âHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as deadâ
âIt is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows without the humility of wonderâ
â Epictetus
âWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam and that perspective fills us with wonderâ
âI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.â
âOnly that day dawns to which we are awake and there is more day to dawn when we awaken to wonderâ
âThere is a voice that does not use words and it speaks in the language of wonder that the heart understandsâ
âThere is geometry in the humming of the strings and there is music in the spacing of the spheres filled with wonderâ
â Pythagoras
âWonder is the desire for knowledge and the beginning of all understandingâ
â Thomas Aquinas
âThe only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder and children are the best at itâ
â Jostein Gaarder
âThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness and if you are attentive you will see it and wonder will ariseâ
âBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror and we are the mirror filled with wonderâ
âWe must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope for hope is born of wonderâ
â Martin Luther King Jr.
âI paint flowers so they will not die and each one holds the wonder of the universeâ
â Frida Kahlo
âThis is my simple religion there is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy just kindness and wonderâ
â Dalai Lama
âHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.â
âIn some sense all matter is alive and every particle contains a universe of wonderâ
â David Bohm
âWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through that fill us with wonderâ
âFaith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof and wonder is its constant companionâ
âIf the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!â
âThe eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.â
â Henri Bergson
âThere 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.â
âIn one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans and wonder reveals themâ
âAll wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.â
â Samuel Johnson
âTwo things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.â
â Immanuel Kant
âWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well full of wonder and possibilityâ
âTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your handâ
â William Blake
âThe present is theirs but the future for which I have really worked is mine and the future is full of wonderâ
âThe 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 wonderâ
â Erwin Schrodinger
âThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with wonder in the heartâ
â Helen Keller
âTo 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.â
âEvery moment of light and dark is a miracle.â
âEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me and look what happens with a wonder like thatâ
âDwell on the beauty of life and watch the stars and see yourself running with them in wonderâ
â Marcus Aurelius
âKeep true to the dreams of your youth for they are born of wonder and lead to greatnessâ
â Friedrich Schiller
âBeauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them and the world is full of wonderâ
âIf 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.â
â Eleonora Duse
âThe person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid and devoid of wonderâ
â Jane Austen
âNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know and wonder is the patient teacherâ
âIt is not down in any map because true places never are but wonder knows the wayâ
â Herman Melville
âIf the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.â
âThe stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies because they know the night sky is vast enough for all their wonderâ
âThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly yet the transformation is full of wonderâ
âOne never notices what has been done one can only see what remains to be done and wonder drives us forwardâ
â Marie Curie
âAnd when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it which is itself a wonderâ
â Paulo Coelho
âWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality but imagination also gives us the gift of wonderâ
â Seneca
âThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.â
â AnaĂŻs Nin
âThe gift of mental power comes from God divine being and if we concentrate our minds on wonder truth is revealedâ
âI do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it without wonderâ
â Diane Ackerman
âThe miracle is not to walk on water the miracle is to walk on the green earth dwelling in wonderâ
âThe 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 wonderâ
âHow we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives and wonder transforms how we spend each momentâ
âWe must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake not by mechanical aids but by an infinite expectation of wonderâ
âWhen 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 wonderâ
âIf you want to find the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy frequency and vibration with wonderâ
âLook at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!â
â Gerard Manley Hopkins
âWe are part of this universe we are in this universe but perhaps more important the universe is in us filling us with wonderâ
âAn optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere while the pessimist sees only the red but the truly wise see wonderâ
â Albert Schweitzer
âIf there is magic on this planet it is contained in water and every drop holds wonderâ
â Loren Eiseley
âThe wise one looks at the obvious and sees the profound because wonder reveals what is hidden in plain sightâ
âToday science has confirmed what many have intuitively known that we are all connected in a web of wonderâ
âYou do not take a photograph you make it and in making it you capture the wonder of a momentâ
â Ansel Adams
âLet life happen to you for believe me life is in the right always full of wonder waiting to be discoveredâ
âThe eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.â
âNature is not our enemy to be raped and conquered but the very fabric of wonder that we are woven intoâ
âWisdom begins in wonder.â
âThe bird fights its way out of the egg and the world is the egg that must be cracked open to reveal wonderâ
â Hermann Hesse
âEverything has beauty but not everyone sees it because not everyone approaches life with wonderâ
â Confucius
âIt was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.â
âI thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and wonder everywhereâ
â E.E. Cummings
âTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do so explore dream discover with wonderâ
â Mark Twain
âThe beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.â
â Pierre Abelard
âThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.â
âOnce 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 wonderâ
âThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.â
â W.B. Yeats
âJudge a person by their questions rather than their answers for questions are born of wonderâ
â Voltaire
âThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness where wonder greets you at every turnâ
âThe 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.â
âThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious it is the source of all true art and scienceâ
âLearning never exhausts the mind because wonder fuels it endlessly with fresh curiosityâ
âBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.â
âIn what terms should we think of these beings who are so like us yet so different and the answer is with wonderâ
âI can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing for I think it is much more interesting filled with wonderâ
â Richard Feynman
âI have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night for wonder conquers all fearâ
âThe heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.â
â King David
âYour vision will become clear only when you look into your heart and the heart sees with wonderâ
â Carl Jung
âThe world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet.â
â Kobayashi Issa
âI have not failed but I have found ten thousand ways that do not work and each one filled me with wonderâ
â Thomas Edison
âAt the touch of love everyone becomes a poet and at the touch of wonder everyone becomes a philosopherâ
âBe empty of worrying and think of who created thought for wonder lives in that emptinessâ
âInstructions for living a life: pay attention be astonished tell about it and never lose your wonderâ
âIt is our task as we grow older to keep alive the spark of wonder that makes life worth livingâ
âIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and wonder beginsâ
âTo catch a glimpse of the marvelous in the ordinary is the task of art and wonder makes it possibleâ
â Simone de Beauvoir
âTrees are sanctuaries and whoever knows how to speak to them and listen to them can learn the truth of wonderâ
âSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness and it took me years to understand that this too was filled with wonderâ
âWisdom cannot be imparted and wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishness but wonder can be sharedâ
âWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it that flower becomes your world full of wonderâ
âSell your cleverness and buy bewilderment for cleverness is mere opinion but wonder touches truthâ
âSell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.â
âThe mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something worth living for and wonder provides that reasonâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âHeaven and earth are impartial; they treat all things as straw dogs. The Tao is like a bellows: empty yet inexhaustible.â
â Laozi
âWhat you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make with wonder as your guideâ
âBeauty will save the world and wonder is the lens through which beauty is perceivedâ
âI do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem like a boy playing on the seashore finding wondersâ
â Isaac Newton
âThe first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist but at the bottom God is waiting with wonderâ
â Werner Heisenberg
âThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty and the wonder it createsâ
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âInstinct is something which transcends knowledge and wonder transcends both leading us to truthâ
âEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me because the sun knows wonder needs no repaymentâ
âOne cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.â
â Erich Fromm
âEvery day is a journey and the journey itself is home when walked with wonderâ
âThe world is a stage but the play is badly cast and only wonder makes the performance worth watchingâ
â Oscar Wilde
âTo the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty and a picture of wonder that was never seen beforeâ
âThe creative adult is the child who survived and kept alive the flame of wonder burning brightâ
âTo live is the rarest thing in the world because most people exist without ever experiencing true wonderâ
âWe are all wanderers on this earth and our hearts are full of wonder at the beauty we find hereâ
âThere is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature and each one carries wonderâ
âThe larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.â
âLet the beauty we love be what we do and there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground in wonderâ
âYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming and wonder renews itself endlesslyâ
âWe are the newest the youngest and the brightest things around and we should feel wonder at ourselvesâ
âThe world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate and it fills us with wonder when we see it clearlyâ
âThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step taken in wonder at the path aheadâ
âI grew up in this town my poetry was born between the hill and the river with wonder as its midwifeâ
âThe eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.â
â Jesus of Nazareth
âThere is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into forms full of wonderâ
â Charles Darwin
âThe more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe the less taste we shall have for destructionâ
âThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough for wonder in each oneâ
âThe unexamined life is not worth living.â
âLife shrinks or expands in proportion to the amount of wonder we bring to it each dayâ
âIt is not down on any map because true places of wonder never are found on ordinary chartsâ
âI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library filled with the wonder of infinite storiesâ
â Jorge Luis Borges
âThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm but wonder is learned in bothâ
â Willa Cather
âFor the child and for the parent who wishes to guide them it is not half so important to know as to feel wonderâ
âSomewhere something incredible is waiting to be known and that fills us with wonderâ
âWe are all potential fossils still carrying within our bodies the crudities of former existences yet filled with wonderâ
âA mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions for wonder has expanded itâ
â Oliver Wendell Holmes
âTwo things are infinite the universe and human stupidity but what is truly infinite is wonderâ
âThe heart has its reasons which reason does not know and wonder speaks the language of the heartâ
âI have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.â
â John Locke
âThe fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and science.â
âI am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.â
âA good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving but on experiencing wonder along the wayâ
âIn a gentle way you can shake the world and wonder is the gentlest force of allâ
â Mahatma Gandhi
âThe human brain has one hundred billion neurons each capable of making thousands of connections creating wonderâ
âNothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood and understanding begins with wonderâ
âMusic gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and wonder to everythingâ
âHeaven and earth are not humane; they treat all things as straw dogs.â
âIt is through wonder that people began to philosophize and they continue to do soâ
âHeaven and earth and I are of the same root. The ten thousand things and I are of one substance.â
â Seng-chao
âYour living is determined not so much by what life brings to you but by the wonder you bring to lifeâ
âYou can only lose something that you have but you cannot lose something that you are and wonder is what you areâ
âLook up at the stars and not down at your feet and try to make sense of what you see with wonderâ
â Stephen Hawking
âWe abuse land because we regard it as a commodity and not as a community to which we belong full of wonderâ
â Aldo Leopold
âWhat you seek is seeking you through the magnetic pull of wonder drawing seeker and sought togetherâ
âOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.â
â William Shakespeare
âI dream my painting and then I paint my dream filling every brushstroke with wonderâ
â Vincent van Gogh
âIt seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement and the greatest source of wonder and visual beautyâ
âPhilosophy begins in wonder.â
âTo be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd and understanding the whole process fills us with wonderâ
âBe like the sun which pours forth light and wonder upon all without distinctionâ
âResearch is formalized curiosity and it is poking and prying with a purpose born of wonderâ
â Zora Neale Hurston
âBeware for I am fearless and therefore powerful but it is wonder that makes me truly aliveâ
â Mary Shelley
âImagination is the only weapon in the war against reality and wonder is its finest ammunitionâ
â Lewis Carroll
âWhoever does not know how to find his way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.â
âI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately and see if I could learn what the woods had to teach about wonderâ
âI think nature has imagination and wonder far greater than the imagination of any personâ
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