Quotes About Wonder

Who sighs from far away?

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

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.

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.

We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.

Happiness is possible only when you stop running and cherish the present moment and who you are. Who you are is already a wonder; you don't need to be someone else. You are a wonder of life.

Imagine one atom of that speck of dust, with electrons traveling around its nucleus at 180,000 miles per second. It is very exciting. To return to a speck of dust with be quite an exciting adventure!

Be in touch with what is wondrous, refreshing, and healing, both inside and around yourself.

Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

See that everything is impermanent and without eternal identity. See that although things are impermanent and without lasting identity, they are nonetheless wondrous.

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.

We still have not yet fully understood electrons and nuclei; for scientists, a speck of dust is very exciting. A particle of dust is a marvel.

The greatest miracle is to be alive.

When our mind is entangled with anger, jealousy, or sadness, we can be in that state hour after hour, day after day. It's a pity, because meanwhile, life is wondrous. If we only concentrate on breathing in and seeing that our body is a wonder, we can see that nothing else is really important.

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'