Quotes About Awe

God, I love butterflies," the billionaire said wistfully. "And rainbows, shooting stars, full moons and glorious sunsets. Why be alive if you're not going to be totally alive?

All human beings alive at this moment have a primitive psychological need to produce masterworks that wow, live daily amidst uncommon awe and know that we are somehow spending our hours in a way that enriches the lives of others.

Because leadership is a lot less about having a formal title, a large office and money in the bank. And a lot more about committing to mastery over all you do—and in who you are. It's about resisting the tyranny of the ordinary, refusing to allow negativity to hijack your sense of awe and preventing any form of slavery to mediocrity from infesting your life.

On the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten — Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars —

We don't know enough, we'll never know. Oh happy Homer, taking the stars and the Gods for granted.

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

Above me, my mother, Dara, stood upon a low balcony in her natural form, looking down at me in her awful power and beauty.

nature is more imaginative than we are.

By now night had fully occupied the sky, which was splattered with stars that seemed merely a few feet away. I can see why religions are born in the desert, Henry said. Yes, we have this problem, Majid said. God is always on top of us.

He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. "We're sure small, wouldn't you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife.

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.

Thus would it be with a man if, while remaining within the bounds of human reason, experience and feelings, he were suddenly to see God Himself. He would see Him but would not understand, even though he knew that it was God, and he would tremble with inconceivable sufferings of incomprehension.

He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter.

Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that!

I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.

Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.