Awe Quotes - Page 21

• Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

  Phil Plait

  Stuff, Sometimes, Figures

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• The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Fun, Reading, Kids

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• Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Self, Emotion, Transcendence

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.202, Basic Books

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• I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

  Shemar Moore

  Character, Men, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.

  Dominic Cooper

  Air, Decision, Pieces

  "Exclusive Interview: Dominic Cooper Talks 'Reasonable Doubt'". www.moviesonline.ca. November 16th, 2017.

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• Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

  Michael Lerner

  Fighting, Genuine Love, Awe And Wonder

  Michael Lerner (2000). “Spirit Matters”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

  Ron White

  Baseball, Commitment, Simple

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• Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.

  Rumi

  Eye, Heal

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.101, Penguin UK

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• If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fire, Law, Broken

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• A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

  John Steinbeck

  Odor, Flavor, Kind

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.729, Penguin UK

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• Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

  Francis of Assisi

  Son, Men, Heaven

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• When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.

  Ang Lee

  Firsts, Scared

  "Ang Lee Deconstructs Cross-Cultural Cinematic Feat ‘Life of Pi’: 'don’t let them tell you, it’s your film language'". Interview with Anne Thompson, blogs.indiewire.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Writing, Simple, Profound

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

  Ben Lerner

  Exciting, Awe Inspiring

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

  John Nichol

  Heart, Rooms, Enough

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• Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe. This novel rocks . . . In Girlchild Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park. When you finish this novel, your sorrow at turning the last page will be eased by your excitement at what this sassy, talented author will do next.

  Mameve Medwed

  Character, Sassy, Central Park

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• I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  People, Brave, May

  "Housing Works Is Helping to Heal the Human Race" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2014.

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• I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

  Lou Doillon

  Men, Muse, Raised

  "Lou Doillon Opens Up About Her Music Career, Growing Up Birkin, and 'Desperately Needing Men'" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. October 16, 2013.

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• How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalation of air but a quivering intake of life. The eye is quickened to the play of light and shade and color, the ear to the intricate medley of sound. This is where the meditation leads. Stay with it; rest with it. Notice how distraction is a flight from this, an escape from awe to worry and plans.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Eye, Light, Air

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• In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

  Aravind Adiga

  Growing Up, Class, My Family

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• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Two, Perception

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• We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humility, Way, Spirit

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• I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Faithful, Want

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 27, 2009.

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• From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  A. E. Hotchner

  School, Firsts, Sun

  A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

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