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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Wonder
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder. ~Abraham Heschel
Look with innocent eyes, very open. That innocence is always there. It’s a
sense of wonder. ~Adyashanti
Let each one turn his gaze inward and regard himself with awe and wonder,
with mystery and reverence. ~Henry Miller
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of
wonder. ~John O’Donohue
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would
change. ~Buddha
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small
things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the
common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the
eternal. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wonder is music heard in the heart, is voiceless. ~Rosemary Dobson
To wonder is to begin to understand. ~Aristotle
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery. ~Annie Dillard
From wonder into wonder existence opens. ~Lao Tzu
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the
artistry moving through, and be silent. ~Rumi
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things. ~Gerard Manley Hopkins
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life,
your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy. ~Kahlil Gibran
We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life. ~D. H. Lawrence
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
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~M. C. Escher
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
To live with an open heart means that pain is no stranger, but wonder will be a
constant companion. ~David Oldfield
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the
world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever
recover from the wonder of it? ~Jeanette Winterson
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
Everything is created from moment to moment, always new. Like fireworks,
this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the
eternal Fourth of July of your absolute splendor. ~Francis Lucille
Awe and wonder must underlie the urgency felt by all artists–musicians, poets,
dancers, painters–to sing forth the deep joy of existence. ~Carl Schmalz
Preserve a childlike mind in yourself and absolutely follow the voice of your
inner being, because that is the divine in us. ~Caspar David Friedrich
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear,
and we discover life with all its wonders. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see
my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of
tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.
~Buddha
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder
in the world. ~G. K. Chesterston
The first act of awe, when a person was struck with the beauty or wonder of
Nature, was the first spiritual experience. ~Henryk Skolimowski
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with
our eyes open. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
Let me keep my mind on what matters which is my work, which is mostly
standing still and learning to be astonished. ~Mary Oliver
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because
the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who
don’t believe in magic will never find it. ~Roald Dahl
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 true wonder of the world is available everywhere, in the minutest parts of
our bodies, in the vast expanses of the cosmos, and in the interconnectedness
of these and all things. ~Michael Stark
There 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. ~Albert Einstein
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are
seven million. ~Walt Streightiff
Wondering is the simple capacity to behold the world around you (and within
you), to be awed by its mystery, to be made curious by its difference, and to
marvel at its compelling form. ~Serene Jones
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think
the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on
earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize:
a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our
own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have
been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great
ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~Isaac Newton
I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come
down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.
~Shinichi Suzuki
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 more I wonder, the more I love. ~Alice Walker
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than
to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you
are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most
rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street
without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of
interesting guesses. ~Bill Bryson
See the world as if for the first; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will
suddenly find that you are free. ~Deepak Chopra
It’s simple things, like a glowing sunset, the sound of a running stream or the
fresh smell in a meadow that cause us to pause and marvel at the wonder of
life, to contemplate its meaning and significance. Who can hold an autumn
leaf in their hand, or sift the warm white sand on the beach, and not wonder at
the Creator of it all? ~Wendy Moore
Wonder takes us beyond our limitations by providing an expansive breath of
fresh air to sustain the soul of creativity, and creativity allows the spirit to
thrive. ~Linda Saccoccio
Watch for glimpses of the divine order. Find those experiences, sights, and
sounds which fill you with awe. Any experience met with awe can be
spiritual: a safari through an animal kingdom, taking in a sunset, a hike to an
awesome mountaintop. ~Susan Santucci
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental
emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and
can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all
had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us
lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the
essence of his being. ~Hans Selye
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
Practice wonder today–be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow
everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you.
Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully. ~Robert Holden
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense
that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have
to be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own
habitual thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths,
textures, and meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and
concepts. ~John Welwood
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ~Jose Ortega Y Gasset
One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of
eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our
souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is
miracle and magic. ~E Merrill Root
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like
curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born. ~Albert
Einstein
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own
unfolding. ~John O’Donohue
To my mind, ‘magic’ is the hard-to-define quality of the things that stir up
mystical feelings like amazement, curiosity, imagination, and above all
wonder. Magic is that which renders something beautiful in a spiritual sense.
It is that which makes one feel as if the world is more than it is presently
understood to be, and yet at the same time the world is working itself out in a
good and beautiful way. ~Brendan Myers
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes
me dream. ~Vincent Van Gogh
The more you know about the unknown, the more you actually understand
how little you know. It makes you humble and brings you back to the world of
wonders, miracles, and magic. ~Thomas Herold
Take time to be with something you love in nature that brings out your natural
curiosity and delight. It may be a wild iris, the shimmering luminescence of
water in a stream, the patterns and colors of a butterfly’s wing. Let yourself be
drawn to it. Engage your senses. Are you touched by the sense of wonder?
~Mark Coleman
To be alive in this beautiful, self-organized universe–to participate in the
dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw
nourishment from it–is a wonder beyond words. ~Joanna Macy
Wonder is the basis of worship. ~Francis Bacon
Do you remember what it felt like to be fascinated by life before you even
knew the meaning of the word “fascinated?” So much around you was new,
and you were full of questions and excitement. ~Linda White Dove
