Quotes About Wonder

Thailand is a really beautiful place, culturally and spiritually. You appreciate it the longer you stay.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

My mind is like a theme park, because it's fun and there's lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.

All of the Flying Lotus records are exploring similar themes: These questions in my mind about what's next and what's beyond.

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One of the things that interests me year-round—as a Christian, as a theologian, as a human being—is that star,

Jack's hands were shaking as he did so, wiping the muck of birth from his son's little body. Mel was straining up to see him, her fingers reaching toward him to touch him. For a moment Jack was paralyzed. Transfixed. Before he could close the blanket around him, he stared at him in sheer wonder. His son. Brought right out of his wife's body. Naked, covered with muck, squalling, and the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen.

Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.

I was focusing on the now. But that didn't mean I couldn't still wonder about what came after.

She stared at me, this wonderful smile rising to her lips, and I don't know that if ever seen someone so beautiful.

Because the thing about miracles is that they're not answers, no matter how much we want them to be. If anything, they're even more troubling questions.

wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

I'd never before walked out of a classroom with my mind racing because of what I'd learned, and I wanted to savor the feeling as long as possible. It was as though my brain was suddenly capable of considering the world with far more complexity , as though there was so much more to see and do and learn.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

I saw—no, I think the word is beheld—the most wondrous thing in the world. This church was indescribably complex and harmonious; it was like stepping into the mind of God. I was overcome by the desire to worship—a feeling I would not see as adequately articulated until many years later, when I would read Dante Alighieri's description, in his first book, Vita nuova, of the first time he, as a child, saw Beatrice:

Los medievales, prosigue Lewis, «veían el cosmos como un gran edificio» —quizás como la catedral de Chartres— «que nos sobrecoge con su grandeza y al tiempo nos tranquiliza con su armonía».

Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.