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Quotes About Wonder

Il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Quel che c'è di bello nella vita è sempre un segreto...per me è stato così...le cose che si sanno sono le cose normali, o le cose brutte, ma poi ci sono dei segreti, ed è lì che si va a nascondere la felicità.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Perché lui? Perché conosco solo posti squallidi, e invece da lui è bello, e tu hai bisogno di stare in un posto bello. (...) perché le cose intorno a lui e il modo che ha di parlarne sono il posto più bello al mondo, l'unico che ho.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Damos asco todos. Somos maravillosos todos, y damos todos asco
~ Alessandro Baricco
Col tempo iniziò a concedersi un piacere che prima si era sempre negato: a coloro che andavano a trovarlo, raccontava dei suoi viaggi. Ascoltandolo, la gente di Lavilledieu imparava il mondo e i bambini scoprivano cos'era la meraviglia. Lui raccontava piano, guardando nell'aria cose che gli altri non vedevano.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Still today, in the lands of Carewall, they all relate that trip. Each in his own way. All without ever having seen it. But it doesn't matter. They will never stop talking about it. So that no one can ever forget how beautiful it would be if, for every sea that awaits us, there were a river for us. And someone capable of taking us by the hand and of finding that river -imagine it, invent it- and of depositing us on its current, with the lightness of a single word, goodbye.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Tutto il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.
~ Alessandro Baricco
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.
~ Alex Filippenko
Magic. It was magic, and the magic is called love.
~ Alex Flinn
Look at those clouds, said Jamie, gazing up at the sky. Look at them. Yes, said Isabel. They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them. Look at the shape of the clouds, she said. What do you see in those beautiful clouds, Jamie? I see you, he said.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
A firefly came into view against the warm darkness. Then it went off, darting and dipping erratically -- out into the night, a tiny pinpoint of light, which, at the end of the day, is all that is needed.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
your jaw would hit the table in astonishment.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I landed on a carpet of moss and looked up at pieces of torn sky breaking through a dense roof of foliage.
~ Alexandra Fuller
To despise flowers is to offend God.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Make your life a magical journey of Life, encountering Life.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Life isn't about finding the answers, life is about knowing there are always more questions.
~ Donald L. Hicks
what use is a childhood?
~ Donald Revell
this. Surprised
~ Donita K. Paul
Donita K. Paul
~ 47 NEW THINGS
Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...
~ Donna Leon
D?l paiko smalsumo žmon?s kartais net praranda tik?jim?.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
Tonight I feel like looking up, gazing deeply far away, trying to decipher my destiny in the vast universe open before me.
~ Dora Musielak