Quotes About Wonder

When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids.

This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that catch us off-guard, that break in our small bordered worlds. When this happens everything feels more spacious.

The trees are so huge that they shut you up.

If you... don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous—and it is.

Do we play anymore, step away from tasks, duties, and habits with curiosity? Tread carefully: if you are not vigilant, this may lead to wonder, which is joy, which every fear in you knows will lead to job failure and lost revenue.

Ferlinghetti writing "I am waiting for the rebirth of wonder

Where inside them does awe arise? Soul is a place- the innermost Russian nesting doll.

I'm actually quite depressed," she said. "I don't see why." "What's the silver lining here? I can't seem to remember today." "The silver lining is that you're not going to have to see any more naked pregnant pictures of Demi Moore." She looked at me for a moment with real wonder. "God," she said, "that's a lot—I hadn't even thought of that.

It stops and gasps at beauty and is bathed in it. And sometimes it begins to weep.

Dear God, Yes, there is a Virginia who helped me create this planet and the marvels thereon. And for whom I thank you. AMJ

Oh, that was marvellous. Could we play it again?

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

how could you find magic if you did not believe in it?

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in to love or to learn it does not have value.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world-its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in to love or to learn, it does not have value. - Zurvan

Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.

What have you seen with your eyes? asked the old woman. What have you seen that you knew should not be there?

I can walk through a myth and out of it!

It will never again be what it was. It's a wonder that I didn't foresee the cataclysm, but then I never really envision the finish of anything that I start.

It's always the young ones who end it. The ones for whom mortality holds magic. As we grow older it's eternity that is our boon.

I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness.

All around us were happy people excited to be going to Atalantaya, many for the first time, and the officials in charge seemed excited for us as well. It was rather like being in a group today that is visiting the cities of Jerusalem or Rome for the first time.