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The world is full of wonders and miracles
but
people take their little hands and
cover their eyes and see
nothing.
Israel Baal Shem
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There once was a child, and he strolled about a
good deal,
and thought of a number of things.
He had a sister, who
was a child too, and his constant
companion. These two
used to wonder all day long.
They wondered at the beauty
of the flowers; they wondered
at the height and blueness
of the sky; they wondered at the depth
of the bright water;
they wondered at the goodness and the power
of God who made the lovely world.
Charles Dickens
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If I had influence with
the good fairy who is
supposed
to preside over
the christening of all
children,
I should ask
that her gift to each
child in the world
be a
sense of wonder so
indestructible that it
would last
throughout
life as an unfailing
antidote against
the
boredom and disenchantment
of later years,
the
sterile preoccupation with things
that
are artificial, the
alienation
from the
sources of our strength.
Rachel Carson
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its
own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when
one contemplates the
mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous
structure of
reality. It is enough
if one tries merely to comprehend
a little of this mystery every
day. Never lose a
holy curiosity.
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One
of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe
with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd
ask me
and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . .
The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I
wanted
to go to those other places and see how people did things
differently.
And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took
my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant
the
seeds of fascination and respect for other people,
we are teaching tolerance and peace.
Charlotte
Davis Kasl
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Every
time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find.
On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for
safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the
glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling
diamonds.
Bernie
Siegel
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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.
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We
are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world.
Instead of just teaching our children how to use things
and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
Bernie
Siegel
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creates wonder and wonder is the basis of the human
being's desire to understand.
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It was
through the feeling of wonder that people now and at first
began to philosophize.
Aristotle |
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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.
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Those
who wonder discover that this in itself is wonder.
M.C.
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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.
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If
a child is to keep alive his or her
inborn sense of wonder, he or she
needs the companionship of at least
one adult who can
share it, rediscovering with the child the joy, excitement
and
mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel
Carson
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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Invite
the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things,
as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are
as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through
a telescope. Start with little things seen through the
magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass
can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can
set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set
you ablaze with insight. Find the light in
each other and just fan it.
Alice
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Awe enables us to perceive 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.
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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 |
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We carry
within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas
Browne |
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The
world will never starve for want
of wonders, but only for want of wonder.
G.K.
Chesterton |
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| Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel |
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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
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It's been said that to wonder is to begin to understand.
Wonder most definitely
creates possibilities! Where's your
sense of wonder? Have you gotten so
bogged down in the
minute-to minute "stuff" that life has become
dull? Bring
forth your curious, creative, sense of wonder
and dust if off -- lighten up and
wonder about everything!
We are all amazing and awesome beings and our world
is
extraordinary even when days may be dark. A sense of wonder
reminds
of just how vast the unknown is and how much we have to
learn each day.
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