Wonder Quotes - Page 15

• I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

  John Muir

  Lonely, Fall, Neighbor

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence”, p.38, Island Press

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• I do think prayer is powerful and it is not to be diminished. Some of us who are struggling to put food on the table and are wondering where the next paycheck is coming from or have dangerous health situations and they don't have access to appropriate care do pray - do pray for yourselves and for others.

  Ashley Judd

  Powerful, Prayer, Struggle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Looks, Sometimes, Gallery

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• 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.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Numbers, Solitude, Helping

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.

  Erica Jong

  Heart, Thinking, Rainbow

  erica jong “fear of flying”

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• Thinking critically is a chore. It does not come naturally or easily. And if the fruits of such efforts are not carefully displayed to young minds, then they will not harvest them. Every school child must be implanted with the wonder of the atom, not the thrall of magic.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Children, School, Thinking

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• 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?

  Homer Hickam

  Thinking, Needs, Able

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• I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively become lighter and lighter, to the point now where I wonder how I can just sell the idea without any physical form. This seems to parallel human development where, as our bodies age, physicality is replaced by conceptualising and spirituality.

  David Trubridge

  Ideas, Age, Development

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• I had started to wonder if maybe my life wouldn't always hold so much pain if I could just find the courage to let it go.

  Ka

  Pain, Let It Go, If I Could

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• Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?

  Robin Epstein

  Thinking, Asking Questions, People

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.68, Penguin

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• One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Believe, Taken

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• There's not a drop of hero's blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I'm just an ordinary guy, and proud of it. I'm here because I put in the time. I have the blisters on my fingers to prove it. It had nothing to do with coincidence, luck, or the activation of my Wonder Twin powers. I reset the game hundreds of times until my special attack finally went off perfectly. Victory was inevitable. So please, hold off on all the hero talk.

  Hiroshi Sakurazaka

  Hero, Blood, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime

  Ian Brennan

  Art, Comfort, World

  Ian Brennan (2016). “How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  Arika Okrent

  Color, Skills, Tangled

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

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• We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Want, Might

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• Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

  Eddie Murphy

  Musical Genius, Musical, Genius

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• I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Giving, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

  Henry Van Dyke

  Suffering, Generations, Heritage

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• May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Dream, Wall

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• As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  Huston Smith

  Islands, Shoreline, Known

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• Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• I love to see new talent, new people beginning. It's a wonderful thing, and one wonders where their journey will take them. Sometimes they ask me for advice but it's very difficult to advise people. Everyone has their own destiny really.

  Greg Lake

  Destiny, Journey, People

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• People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what story I am allowed to tell. Having been working with the homeless for the past years, I noticed lots of things about them, but one thing I really noticed was that they were probably too busy just getting though the day to make a film about themselves.

  Paul Bettany

  Past, Years, People

  "Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Connelly & Paul Bettany Discuss Making ‘Shelter’ & the State of Homelessness in NYC" by Aramide A Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 13, 2015.

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• No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

  Nick Cave

  Sadness, Sorrow, So Sad

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

  John Scalzi

  People, Poor

  John Scalzi (2010). “Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008”, p.300, Macmillan

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