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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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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 us
of just how vast the unknown is and how much we have to
learn each day.
Beth
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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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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 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
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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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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.
the Buddha
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Mystery
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.
Ray Bradbury
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Those
who wonder discover that this in itself is wonder.
M.C.
Escher
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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.
Augustine
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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 Garrett
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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
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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
Tudor
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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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True
and lasting wonder needs to be renewed regularly, even
daily. Otherwise,
life's inevitable formula will be: Wonderful is followed by
wonder-half-full,
which is followed by wonder-quarter-full, which quickly becomes
wonder-less.
If you want to make your capacity for awe as wide as the sky, you
must take
preventative action. Otherwise, you'll end up as a
wonderless wanderer
and life will cease to be a joyful adventure.
Edward Hays
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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.
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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.
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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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The
larger the island of knowledge, the longer
the shoreline of wonder.
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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
Winterson
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Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.
D.H. Lawrence |
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The more I
wonder, the more I love.
Alice Walker |
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There
are no seven wonders
of the world in
the eyes
of a child. There are seven million.
Walt
Streightiff
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The
meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: overcome
fear, behold wonder.
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If you
enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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When
we are aware that each moment of each day, each gesture
and step we take, is truly mystical and full of wonder, we will
live
our lives with greater thought and care. We will also have
greater
respect and appreciation for the lives of others.
Daisaku Ikeda
Buddhism
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The
problem with our time, perhaps, is that we have been seduced by
facts and data, at the same time, become bereft of wonder. We want
to know it all rather than to understand the meaning of it all for
the
good life here and now. The universe, however technological
it may
now be, is still the ultimate mystery, the essential human
question, the
greatest spiritual revelation. Everything else is distraction.
To
know all
the elements, all the chemistry of life, is one thing; to know
what it
means to live a good life in the midst of the knowledge of what
humans
can do with them to destroy it is entirely another.
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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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Christmas
renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity
for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty,
for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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The Highest to
which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime
phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing
higher can it give them, and nothing further should they
seek for behind it; there is the limit.
Alan Watts
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I still find each day too short
for all the thoughts I want to think,
all the walks I
want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the
friends
I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind
dwells upon
the beauty and wonder of the world. I hardly
know which feeling leads,
wonderment or admiration.
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I would sooner live in a
cottage and wonder at everything
than live in a castle and wonder at nothing.
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Never
say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There
is
always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree,
the trembling of a leaf.
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