John Dickerson Quotes

Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.

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.

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

I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.

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 have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?

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.

I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

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.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.

Life is such a beautiful thing. When you sit for a moment during the day and live that particular moment, everything seems perfect.

I try to take time to find joy out of life, and I don't take a day for granted like I used to.

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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

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

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.