Quotes About Wonder

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What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask." —Sam Keen

when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it.

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

Where the slanting forest eaves, Shingled tight with greenest leaves, Sweep the scented meadow-sedge, Let us snoop along the edge; Let us pry in hidden nooks, Laden with our nature books, Scaring birds with happy cries, Chloroforming butterflies, Rooting up each woodland plant, Pinning beetle, fly, and ant, So we may identify What we've ruined, by-and-by.

the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. — William Butler Yeats

Live your life as if there are no miracles and everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting; It's luring me on as of old; Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold. It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder, It's the forests where silence has lease; It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting So much as just finding the gold. It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder, It's the forests where silence has lease; It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It's the stillness that fills me with peace.

Mysteries make one dream of unendurable bewitchments, they have the fragrance of something quite, quite unspeakably beautiful.

there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which surely feels, now and then, from its so wonderfully charming confinement, the pull of longing: the leaf.

Why do people all over the world, and at all times, want marvels that defy all verifiable facts? And are the marvels brought into being by their desire or is their desire an assurance rising from some deep knowledge, not to be directly experienced and questioned, that the marvelous is indeed an aspect of the real?

I was young once, and I wandered alone; The wide road was bewildering; I didn't know much. Then I met a friend and I felt very rich, For man is ever the joy of man.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight?

I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in a moonlit sky or soaking in the the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

Enfrentándoos a las cosas que os asustan es el modo de reclamar un poder que habíais olvidado. Y un modo de recuperar la inocencia y el asombro que perdisteis tras vuestra infancia.

God, I love butterflies," the billionaire said wistfully. "And rainbows, shooting stars, full moons and glorious sunsets. Why be alive if you're not going to be totally alive?

We adopt the paradigm of a victim. We make excuses and then recite them so many times we train our subconscious mind to think they are true. We blame other people and outer conditions for our struggles, and we condemn past events for our private wars. We grow cynical and lose the curiosity, wonder, compassion and innocence we knew as kids.

Por qué? A veces he llegado a creer hasta en seis cosas imposibles antes del desayuno. LEWIS CARROLL, Alicia en el país de las maravillas

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

We not only possess the ability to think, we also carry a precious capacity to feel. It's simply not possible to step into your highest knowledge, experience intimacy with your hidden powers, accomplish spellbinding results and experience sustained gratitude, awe and wonder if you only live in your head.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.