“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Episode of the National Public Radio program Speaking of Faith : "Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh" (2003)
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Harry Dresden: You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”
Jim Butcher book Small Favor
Source: The Dresden Files, Small Favor (2008), Chapter 24
“i'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.”
Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember
Source: A Walk to Remember
“Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Federico Buffa (1959) Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster
Source: Riferita ai 13 punti in 35 secondi messi a segno da Tracy McGrady in Rockets-Spurs 9 dicembre 2004]
Ursula Goodenough book The Sacred Depths of Nature
Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 30
Context: The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.