"Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,..."
- Baruch Spinoza
"Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!"
- Bryant McGill
"A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace."
- John Piper
"It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else."
- Marty Rubin
"Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind."
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
"A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showin..."
- Carrie Newcomer
"Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!"
"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."
- Celia Green