Amazement Quotes

• Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Life, Spiritual, Morning

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• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

  Plato

  Love, Marriage, Wise

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

  Welwyn Wilton Katz

  Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Fairy Tale

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• Amazement awaits us at every corner.

  James Broughton

  Corners

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Destiny, Life And Death

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

  Plato

  Happiness, Wise, Love Is

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.513

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• When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Wedding, Gratitude

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, People, Results

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• The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Goal, Achieve

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• We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

  John Owen

  Worship, Christ, Holy

  John Owen (1790). “An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;: With the Preliminary Exercitations”, p.57

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

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Incredibles, Treats

  "Why is spirituality correlated with life satisfaction?" by Daniel José Camacho, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2017.

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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

  Edward Blishen

  Teacher, Teaching, Life Is

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• Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

  Charles Darwin

  Attention, Astonishment, Graduates

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.278

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• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Recollection

  "Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956" by Jack Kerouac, 1995.

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Lying, Heart

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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• Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Gratitude, States

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2014

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• Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Joy, World

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.91, Book Tree

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• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

  Hans Selye

  Death, Science, Emotional

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• Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Light, Long, Shining

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to.  He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

  Meg Ryan

  Father, People, World

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• Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

  Larry Winget

  Motivational, Trust, Time

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.211, Penguin

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