Quotes About Wonder

Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.

The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee.

playing at the entrance of the hut. "Whose children are these?" he asked.

If all the heavens with all their stars exploded in this valley, they would be but a leaf fluttering in the wind. Here a tiny fish is mightier than a whale and nobody can say why.

Netfali's breath caught in his throat at the sight of the infinite colors and the gentle curve of the faraway horizon. He had never imagined the height of the white spray breaking against the rocks, the dark sand, or the air that whispered of fish and salt. He stood, captivated, feeling small and insignificant, and at the same time as if he belonged to something much grander.

Adventure is a nameless joy

Nothing up there tonight but entropy, and the same imaginary shapes that people had been imposing on nature since they'd first thought to wonder at the heavens.

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Is that my foot? Silly me, it's a starfish

Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo, Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto; E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto. (You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)

A?açlar?n bile s?hhatine imrenerek yürürdüm.

Magick is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence.

If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.

Not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover.

A life well lived is the best antidote to that fatal truth. Be active, not a passive worrywart. Find magic in the moment, joy in making someone smile. Listen to a lover's sigh; look into the dancing eyes of a child you made feel special. Most of all, marvel at the wonder that eons of evolutionary time and all your unique experiences have joined to comprise the symphony that is YOU.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Earth never grieves, I thought, walking across the park, watching seagulls cruising greedily above the ground looking for heaven knows what. Don't you think it's a good line? A very good line

scientist and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously observed, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

De vez en cuando un milagro, oro y risas, y de nuevo la esperanza cuando crees que a tu alrededor todo es destrucción y silencio.

Dis Papa, c'est quoi le ciel? Un espace sans ligne ni partage Une grande rêverie une nuite pleine de jour Qui n'a ni fin ni soif

Même si ça parâit impossible, on a bien le droit de rêver, non?

Je me suis installé dans le jardin. Comme le ciel n'est pas tout à fait noir, je vois des oiseaux traverser l'étendue grise-dessus des arbres, en un long vol, puissant et formidable, et il me semble les sentir glisser à la surface de mes yeux.

Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them. Gallop through life and without dismounting your horse manage (like a Cossack!) to pick up bits of otherworldliness lying on the path. Feed your imagination that way. That way, shape your destiny.