Nature is another important aspect of nourishing the soul. After a hike in the mountains where we live, for instance, I feel a remarkable sense of gratitude and awe. My mind quiets down and allows me to see more clearly the beauty of creation. And through that gratitude, the beauty of the universe is reflected back to the creator.
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. . . . Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.
Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey. " "I speak Turkish.
I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.
I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.
Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.
Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.
Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.
She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.
We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
I'm in awe of comics that do things that I can't do, or haven't tried doing yet.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.