Life is a miracle and marvel (quotes)
Life is a miracle …
- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
- We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. E. Merrill Root
- I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles. Robert Brault
- You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you can realise that your life is the miracle. Robert Brault
- To be alive, to able to see, to walk…it’s all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. Arthur Rubinstein
- The warrior of light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. Paulo Coelho
- The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. Thich Nhat Hanh
- Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy. Thich Nhat Hanh
- Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. George Bernard Shaw
- People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh
- Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing. Wayne Dyer
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… every moment of it
- The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. Storm Jameson
- Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk. Beverly Nichols
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Life is a great mystery…
- Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- We are surrounded by a rich and fertile mystery. Henry David Thoreau
- I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it. Aldous Huxley
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… and so are you
- What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? John Edward Masefield
- The essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We’re involved in a mystery. Edward Hirsch
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Life is full of wonder…
- We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders. K. Chesterton
- Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. Welwyn Wilton Katz
- Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder. Jimmy Carter
- Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. Andy Mulcahy
- Life is too wonderful, too full, too short, and strength too limited to contain its wonder. Ruth Draper
- We are all connected through this world of wonders that’s more plainly referred to as life. Charlie O’Shields
- In every single moment, there is significance. Wonder is sprinkled all around us. Flavia
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… and the world is a strange, beautiful and wondrous place
- It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson
- To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy–and dull fantasy at that–as the real world is strange and wonderful. Robert A. Heinlein
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Waking up to the wonder and miracle of life makes you more fully alive
- Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
- Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ray Bradbury
- When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder. H. Lawrence
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Open your heart to wonder
- To live with an open heart means that pain is no stranger, but wonder will be a constant companion. David Oldfield
- We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. E. Merrill Root
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Open your mind to magic
- Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have to be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own habitual thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts. John Welwood
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Open your soul to amazement
- The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who know it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out can. Albert Einstein
- Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement. Jack Kornfield
- Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night. William Hazlitt
- Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed. Jason Kravitz
- The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way. Arthur Christopher Benson
- Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul. D. H. Lawrence
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Pay close attention to the miracles of daily life, especially the little things
- The warrior of light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. Paulo Coelho
- The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world unto itself. Henry Miller
- Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver
- The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony. Orhan Pamuk
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Contemplate the wonder and miracle that you, yourself, are
- We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury
- Men travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine
- All the wonders you seek are within yourself. Sir Thomas Brown
- So many people are expecting a miracle instead of BEING a miracle. Wayne Dyer
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Contemplate the mystery of life and let it awaken your curiosity
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein
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See life and the world through the eyes of a child
- See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free. Deepak Chopra
- As children, we had a sense of wonder. Our eyes were wide open and drinking in the gifts we beheld. Our thirsty souls could not get enough of the wonders of creation. Then, somehow, we grew too old to dream. Edward Hays
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Make room in your life for moments that take your breath away
- Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breath-taking moments. Michael Vance
- Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. Hilary Cooper
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Awaken your sense of mystery
- As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. A.C. Benson
- The world is incomprehensible. We won’t ever understand it; we won’t ever unravel its secrets. Thus, we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery. Carlos Castaneda
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Awaken your reverence for life
- If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. Albert Schweitzer
- There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul’s garden, which I love to have watered once a week. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Miracles
- Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.To me the sea is a continual miracle,
The fishes that swim-the rocks-the motion of the waves-the ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?
– Walt Whitman