Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle.
Dan Wakefield
Related Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, ... DAN WAKEFIELD To wake up each morning is a great miracle. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you don’t want to deceive yourself in this new year, don’t be a miracle chaser SUNDAY ADELAJA We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The... RAY BRADBURY To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I ha... ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. ... ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an abs... THICH NHAT HANH Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive. THICH NHAT HANH life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle - CHARLES BUKOWSKI Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that... GABRIEL Bá When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano... HELEN KELLER Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive. THICH NHAT HANH Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in... THICH NHAT HANH Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in... THICH NHAT HANH When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life o... HELEN KELLER Romanes eunt domus LIFE OF BRIAN Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity o... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity o... AULIQ-ICE ...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle. ORHAN PAMUK From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who... THE SCHOOL OF LIFE Miracle focus gospel is a deceptive gospel SUNDAY ADELAJA Why we think we have not seen any miracle when the existence of our own life is nothing less than a ... NEHA KOTHARI True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life... RONALD ROLHEISER Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r... THICH NHAT HANH We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness ... DEBASISH MRIDHA We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Life is a miracle. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The miracle of everyday living is the blessed breath of life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We're not miracle workers. But can take away some of their worries and turn them into the home they'... EDUARDO XOL The day of birth is a miraculous day. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It's really a miracle that I'm alive. LAURYN HILL I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ... ALICE WALKER Life is a miracle. We, all of us are creator beings. We are the joyful choice makers. SAKSHI CHETANA Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can. COLM TOIBIN If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. BUDDHA Be so strong enough in virtues like hard work rather than waiting for miracle. SUNDAY ADELAJA We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. PAULO COELHO Life is a still repetitive miracle, not a poker table, not a business, it is sometimes sad poem, a g... MARIANA FULGER I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal thin... MICHAEL ZADOORIAN This is the miracle of all miracles—when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When ... SETH ADAM SMITH The real miracle in human life is having emotions, being able to feel things. MARTY RUBIN I believe Jesus wasn't thinking about miracle when He performed it. He's just doing normal act... TOBA BETA What one person calls miracle, I call nature. ABHIJIT NASKAR If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, ima... DALE CARNEGIE Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush. DANIEL DENNETT You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a... ECKHART TOLLE Maybe we should call it the miracle state. DON WALSH It's just a miracle we're still alive. JEANNIE MOSTAD A transcendent being can be any miracle. WAYNE DYER Know that you yourself are a miracle. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an... CHARLES M. SCHULZ Progress is slow until the miracle suddenly occurs. JIM GENOVESE Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle. BARBARA DALE The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in t... THICH NHAT HAHN The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in t... THICH NHAT HANH It's a miracle that the girls are even alive. DAN MUNDI It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of thi... JOHN CROWE RANSOM We pray to God that those men come out alive. We want a miracle so that they can walk out before the... GUADALUPE MEJIA Life that is waiting for the expectation of miracle makes us to be against the nature. SUNDAY ADELAJA Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in t... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. �... CARL SAFINA You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpect... PAULO COELHO People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Somehow we have a lot of hope still. We're praying for a miracle, and we are asking for a miracle, a... TOM SMART Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbabl... DIANE ACKERMAN I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God. DEBORAH WILLIAMS Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time. JACKIE WILLIAMS Keep learning! Learning means growing. He who always learns knows how to grow in maturity. When we s... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle. MARTY RUBIN The miracle of all miracles is the christological incarnation. It presents to us something that is f... ERNEST NKOMOTJE What’s at stake in your life? What will you go through for your miracle? JOHN DI LEMME You will never know how much you can accomplish until you try. Never stop trying. Your miracle will ... LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Divine miracle is at work in my life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu... DORIS J TORRES It was Easter Sunday and I like to call it the second-greatest miracle. I never jumped so high in my... SYLVIA HATCHELL So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibil... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enoug... ANN VOSKAMP I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e... JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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