Will Durant Quotes

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

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

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.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

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.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.

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.

I'm alive. That's a good thing.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.