Wondrous Quotes

• Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reality, Imagination, Cosmos

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• You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Journey, Sight

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1959)

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• Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Heart, Miracle

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  Edmund Waller

  Love, Sweet, Time

  Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”

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• We might as well give in to the tug of our spirits to explore this confounding and wondrous world. We might as well greet each other as endless pilgrims and bid each other well on our way. Because we're already on the road.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Giving, World, Might

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Happiness, Power

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• Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

  Gordon Cooper

  Thank You, Father, Able

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• There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world.

  Sam Keen

  Art, Philosophy, Practice

  Interview with Frederic Brussat, www.spiritualityandpractice.com.

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Endurance, Cheerfulness

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• For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

  Herman Melville

  Fear, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.328, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Communication, Literature

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York, October 28, 1964.

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• Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Hope, Spring, Rain

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?

  Van Morrison

  Moving, Spirit, Sometimes

  Van Morrison (2016). “Toma interior”, p.284, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."

  William Saroyan

  Life, Sorrow, Add

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood!

  Layman Pang

  Water, Miraculous, Firewood

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• This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

  Meg Rosoff

  Alternatives, Dread, Miraculous

  Meg Rosoff (2011). “There Is No Dog”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

  Madame de Stael

  Giving, Charity, Fountainhead

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• As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Omnipotence, Circles

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Miracle

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.11, Harmony

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• A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

  Alexander Pope

  Feelings, Kind, Fellow Feeling

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• As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

  KT Tunstall

  Long, Healthy, Earth

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• The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Generosity, Infinite, Abandon

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “All Over Creation”, p.229, Canongate Books

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• Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.171

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