Quotes About Wonder

Russell Hoban

Sixth, the libertarian fancies that this world is a stage for the ego, with its appetites and self-assertive passions. But the conservative finds himself 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.

You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.

You know what I've often said, ever since Auschwitz. Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that." Her hand was still on his cheek, her arm

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

get to fly while you're still a little

I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!

How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father.

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

Dünyan?n en basit, en zavall?, hatta en ahmak adam? bile, insan? hayretten hayrete dü?ürecek ne müthi? ve kar???k bir ruha maliktir. Niçin bunu anlamaktan bu kadar kaç?yor ve insan dedikleri mahluku anla??lmas? ve hakk?nda hüküm verilmesi en kolay ?eylerden biri zannediyoruz?

?nsanlar?n en zay?f taraflar?, sormadan, ara?t?rmadan, dü?ünmeden, kafalar?n? patlatmadan inanmak hususundaki hayret verici temayülleridir.

Hayatta hiçbir zaman kafam?zdaki kadar harikulade ?eyler olmayaca??n? henüz idrak etmemi?tim.

I had yet to learn that nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds.

nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds.

Ama ruhumuz böyle gökyüzlerinde uçup dururken birdenbire yere inip insan küçüklü?ü ile kar??la?mak ne tuhaf oluyor.

Her mouth formed a silent "O" to

The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.

This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator – you can just discard him, dump him – and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside.

Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.