Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.