Quotes about Awe
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All that we behold is full of blessings.
— William Wordsworth
When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!
— Anne Lamott
In order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.
— Anne Lamott
Life is way wilder than I am comfortable with, way farther out, as we used to say, more magnificent, more deserving of awe and, I would add, more benevolent—well-meaning, kindly.
— Anne Lamott
It stops and gasps at beauty and is bathed in it. And sometimes it begins to weep.
— Anne Lamott
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
— Wendell Berry
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
— Ashley Montagu
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
— St. Augustine
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!
— William Wordsworth
My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.
— Arthur Conan Doyle