Best wonder & capacity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.”

Ifs Should Said Age Young Names Wonder Youth Capacity Increase Add Unfamiliar Paraphrase Being Old

Author:Wolf Kahn

“We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.”

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Author:Sylvia Earle

“Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.”

Knows Wells Soul Might Eye Wonder Capacity Remains His Eyes Contemplating Enchantment

Author:Albert Einstein

“The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.”

Happiness Time Enjoy Secret Wonder Right Now Travel Capacity Breathing Sunshine Time Travel Secret To Happiness

Book:Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in you before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.”

May Two Joy Sides Wonder Promise Despair Capacity Coins Spinning Restoration Two Sides

Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

“Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.”

“O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.”

Ends Wonder Capacity Attraction Amazed Insignificant

Author:John Piper

“I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.”

Ifs Thinking Use Asks Can Do Wonder Creativity Computer Capacity Remarkable Capability Fractions Personal Computers

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore.”

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Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

“I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?”

Thinking Needs Able Wonder Imagine Planets Capacity Greatest Gifts

Author:Homer Hickam

“Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.”

Enjoy Wonder Capacity Breathing Sunshine

Book:Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.”

Years President Powerful Wonder Grace Example Capacity Forgiving Following Setting Settings Redemption Remarkable Imprisonment Nelson Jailer

Author:George H. W. Bush

“The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.”

Feels Stills Process Wonder Creative Essentials Capacity Creative Process

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are embarked on; and along with that will go the spiritual discoveries and, I feel, the inexhaustible wonder that one feels, that opens more and more the more you know. It's simply that this increasing knowledge constantly enlarges your kingdom and the capacity for admiring and loving the universe.”

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Author:Conrad Aiken

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