The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein
“Practice being excited.”
Bill Foster
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
George Hegel
“Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” Buddha
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing . . . . Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something . . The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“People do their best work when they are passionately engaged in what they are doing” Erie S. Raymond
“There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.”
Willie Hill, student
“Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.”
Joseph Campbell
“All thinking begins with wondering”
Socrates
“I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!” Joan Winmill Brown
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
Frank Tibolt, Author
“I want to be excited, thrilled, and ecstatic about all sorts of things as long as I live.”
Win Couchman, Writer and Speaker
“One thing life has taught me: If you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.”
Herbert W. Boyer
I think that nothing awakens us to the reality of life so much as a true passion. Vincent Van Gogh
I wonder. I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why I wonder. Richard Feynman
