Quotes for All
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement. Eugene … Read more
The more sophisticated we become – as we pierce reality and see the void beyond – the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being. Eric Maisel
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. Ella Maillart
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, \”They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet.\” Edward Hirsch
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. Edward Abbey
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush … Read more
Nature’s beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping. Dov Davidoff
As I’m never going to be old, I’m glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness. Douglas Coupland
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. Douglas Adams
The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy. Doug Henning