Quotes About Wonder

You'd be amazed at the infinite possibilities of the impossible.

Vastos abismos interestelares pulverizados por el mágico poder de un pequeño pensamiento compartido.

Me asustó tanta belleza, porque la belleza es la mezcla de lo hermoso y lo terrible.

Moss, you—you look wonderful!" Amanda told him, wondering if her eyes were giving away her feelings. Her emotions were now more confused than ever. Sitting across from her was not only a man she already knew to be brave and skillful, a man of strength and experience, but also a very, very handsome man, who she suspected was also very lonely.

In an epoch of criticism ideals are lowered; other feelings take the place of veneration, respect, adoration, and wonder. Our own age thrusts these feelings further and further into the background, so that they can only be conveyed to man through his every-day life in a very small degree.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

What is this, said the leopard,that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?

Well, I believe in miracles, so it comes to

the village. There he saw a little girl holding

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.

The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

and I could imagine myself searching for lost time under the tree ...

Music is like outer space, Benny. No need for flying to some other place. Everything is so beautiful right here.

When I stand on the edge of a tall place I feel like I'm on the edge of time, peering into forever. The question 'What if...?' rises up in my mind, and it's exciting because I know that in the next instant, in less time than it takes to snap my fingers, I could fly into eternity.

Ruth had always been fascinated by the meandering currents of his mind

You look like a cat touching a mirror," said Carol, watching me. "You know the way they look at themselves and then reach out a paw as if they can't believe it's glass and not another cat?

It wasn't just catching mackerel that made those dawns red-letter days for us. It was like watching the world being created anew to watch the sun come up -the orange streak changing to flames -orange, yellow, crimson; to watch the whole bay catch the glory of it – to watch the western sky take fire. People who don't ever watch sunrises miss a lot of wonder.

Did you ever get up at crack of dawn – get your own breakfast and row out a good nautical mile into Penobscot Bay to watch the sun come up while you wait for a school of mackerel to swim near enough to be caught? It is a time full of wonder.

Poder elegir tu propio dolor; da un poco de miedo, pensó, pero también es maravilloso.

The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart.

W czÅ'owieku, który uwa?a, ?e wszystko ju? byÅ'o i nic nie mo?e go zdziwi?, umarÅ'o to, co najpiÄ™kniejsze - uroda ?ycia.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

It is a positive starting point for philosophy when Aristotle says that philosophy begins with wonder, not as in our day with doubt. Moreover the world will learn that the thing is not to begin with the negative, and the reason why it has succeeded up to the present is that it has never really given itself over to the negative, and so has never seriously done what it said. Its doubt is mere child's play.

Así que, ¡a la una, a las dos y… a las tres!: me lanzo de cabeza a la existencia, pero el salto siguiente, ése no me atrevo a intentarlo, porque no soy capaz de realizar prodigios y me conformo con asombrarme al contemplarlos.