Lauren DeStefano Quotes

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

Wonders will never cease.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

Everything just blows me away.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.