Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us."
Wonder quotes
Wonder
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder."
Joseph Prince
Pastor
"God does not leave you wondering whether you are saved or not. He tells you outright that you are His and that nothing can ever separate you from the love of Christ. Not even sin because His blood is greater than your sin!"
Rachel Carson
Biologist, Conservationist, Author
"Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see."
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"God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut"
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"Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder."
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"Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
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"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."
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"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"
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"I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world."
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"It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."
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"And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]"
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"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
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"Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out."
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"I walk the world in wonder."
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"Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow."
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"The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves."
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"Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that."
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"Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?"
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"The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder."
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"Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all."
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"We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth."
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"If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much."
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