Quotes for All
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something – a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something – something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don’t we go … Read more
Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities. Gail Sheehy
We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we’ve lost respect for movement in our planet. Gabrielle Roth
High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other’s penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and … Read more
The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe. Etsko Schuitema
I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is. Ester Dean
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised. Ernie J Zelinski
All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. Ernest Hemingway
Respect is not fear and awe; it…[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. … Read more
A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery’s offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge. Eric Weiner