Amazement Quotes

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Dang! Look at that RAINBOW!" Piper shouted, accidently spewing bits of apple pie from her overstuffed mouth. All quickly turned and saw...
...exactly what Piper claimed, a rainbow.”
― Victoria Forester, The Girl Who Could Fly

“I love to draw—pencil, ink pen—I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England—you know those huge paintings?—I’m just amazed. You don’t think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.”
― Michael Jackson

“I do not fully understand the way of human beings. They are a curious and remarkable tribe altogether. They are capable of anything. I know that much. They are a constant surprise to me. They are a constant surprise to themselves also. They appear to live in a state of constant amazement. This makes them refreshing and infuriating. But there is a greatness about them sometimes. More perhaps than they know. Or a capacity for greatness. More than they know. It’s confusing but I know this to be true. I have learned that much in all these years.”
― Brian Doyle, Mink River

“Very soon the world too will see what GOD sees in you.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied horrors of a cross and the wild exhilaration of an empty tomb. But at the point that I think I completely understand God, I have at that very point humanized Him and in that very action I have lost Him. Therefore, I much prefer to simply marvel.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Almost the entire world is asleep. Those who are awake live in constant amazement.”
― Tom Hanks, Joe vs. the Volcano

“Enlightenment is simply the moment you realize how amazing it is to be alive.”
― Marty Rubin

“You must, first of all, evolve the consciousness of being the best in whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it and you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Each day, each moment
is a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazement?”
― Ivan M. Granger

“¿Y qué no es asombroso? ¿Eres capaz de explicar todo cuanto te sucede? ¿Tú entiendes el prodigio de la respiración que te permite seguir viviendo?”
― ميخائل نعيمة, Encuentro

“Bert gave a long low whistle, like a bullet that could bend around corners.”
― Javier Pedro Zabala, The Mad Patagonian

“The unexpected explosion of color and noise and beauty in her world has left her awed.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“If you can practice the rule of ten thousand hours, you will be amazed to find out how easy it is to become the best in that your area of calling.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Overcome The Fear Of Death

“If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly doing one single thing in a day, you will be amazed how best you will become in that thing after a given number of years.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“How can one stand in a field of red poppies and not want to live forever?”
― Marty Rubin

“I am still half-asleep. The television is blaring, and I open the door with half-opened eyes.
‘Hello,’ I hear a male voice.
I open my eyes to look into shining blue eyes. ‘Hi…’ I rub my eyes to stir myself out of my semi-sleep state. Who is this person with sparkling blue eyes?”
― Pragya Tiwari, Outlet from Loneliness

“Whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it, you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I touch my face, I run my fingers through my hair. This constant amazement: I'm here, I'm alive.”
― Marty Rubin

“I am amazed about the greatness of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Every day set a few moments aside to think and feel how amazing it is to be alive.”
― Marty Rubin

“They said: 'ajab is the bewilderment that befalls a person because of his failure to understand the cause of something, or to understand the effect of the cause of something upon it [or alternately, upon him].”
― Zakariya al-Qazwini

“If a person sees a beehive, and has not seen one previously, he will become bewildered because he does not understand who made it. If he then learns that it is the work of the bee, he will be bewildered again by how this weak creature makes these hexagons, the likes of which a skilled engineer would be unable to make with a compass and ruler.”
― Zakariya al-Qazwini

“The Prophet, Peace be Upon Him, said, 'Contemplate Allah's creation.' Intelligent contemplation comes only to one who has been bewildered by what is known. . . . For when that has happened, the eye of discernment opens for him, and he sees 'ajab (wonder) in everything.”
― Zakariya al-Qazwini

“Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju