Quotes About Wonder

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

Sunsets are absolutely amazing from the Space Station.

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

Every angel is terrifying.

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.

Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

Live the questions now

O Stunden in der Kindheit, da hinter den Figuren mehr als nur Vergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft.

Most people do not know at all how beautiful the world is and how much magnificence is revealed in the tiniest things, in some flower, in a stone, in tree bark, or in a birch leaf. (Letters on Life)

Ein Jeder engel ist schrecklich.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly being here is glorious.

Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything;

Every angel is terrible.

Beauty is but the beginning of terror. We can barely endure it and are awed when it declines to destroy us.

but there is a great deal of beauty here, because there is beauty everywhere.

Accetta dunque [...] un bacio con tutto il cuore nella solenne ora di Natale, la più pacata dell'anno, la più misteriosa, in cui i desideri ancora ignari si tendono fino all'estremo e vengono per prodigio esauditi: [...] abbandona ogni dubbio e incomprensione: in quest'ora abbiamo un posticino dentro di noi dove siamo semplicemente bambini, che attende e sta là, fiducioso e mai confuso, nel suo diritto a una grande gioia: questo è il Natale.

Deep, calm, siren-like, and magical. -Two Poems to Hans Thomas on his Sixtieth Birthday

in later years it occasionally happened that I awoke in the night and the stars were so real and advanced so convincingly that I could not understand how people managed to lose so much of the world