Quotes About Awe

Que la terre est petite à qui la voit des cieux! Delille. How small is the earth to him who looks from heaven

Que la terre est petite à qui la voit des cieux! Delille.

Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive.

Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play — and by "we" I mean society — in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by "we" I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

When I saw the kouros for the first time, he said, I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work.

Bruhn still had a sense of amazement in his voice as

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Amazement is better than annoyance.

Stars are howling see moon is caught on fire.

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with

If you look at language merely as craft you are committing lèse-majesté towards your own sacred tools. You've got to have the proper respect—you've got to feel awed in its presence (see, I say "awed," not "sacred").

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

Am tr?it într-o uluire p?tima??.

I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.

I believe they taught me as much about the infinite capacity of things to be surprising—and a great deal about the power of beauty.

As with almost every sunset, but with this one in particular: shut the fuck up.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

been literally breathtaking