Favorite Quotations
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Wonder & Awe
Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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 Wonder is the salt of the earth. ~ M.C. Escher Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Greek Proverb 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 Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder. ~ Plato People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~ St. Augustine A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~ Rachel Carson 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. ~ John Muir Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me. ~ Immanuel Kant He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M.C. Escher I am more lost in wonder than ever.~ John Huston, American Heritage, April/May 1992
"I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life." ~ Pam Grier