Quotes About Wonder

My father said, "I would never have thought this place could be beautiful. I'm glad to know that.

It still amazes me every time I think of it. I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires.

I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me.

It was strange to wonder what she had really forgotten.

Each morning I'm like Adam waking up in Eden, amazed at the cleverness of my hands and at the brilliance pouring into my mind through my eyes--old hands, old eyes, old mind, a very diminished Adam altogether, and still it is just remarkable. What of me will I still have? Well, this old body has been a pretty good companion. Like Balaam's ass, it's seen the angel I haven't seen yet, and it's lying down in the path.

Each morning I'm like Adam waking up in Eden, amazed at the cleverness of my hands and at the brilliance pouring into my mind through my eyes - old hands, old eyes, old mind, a very diminished Adam altogether, and still it is just as remarkable.

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.

Life is Beautiful

Life is so beautiful

Y sigo pensando que, a pesar de haber vivido ya tantos veranos, aquél fue el más fabuloso de todos.

And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars .

We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all around you.

When it was daylight, we'd been sitting on a stoop watching the street get light. She mentioned the light took eight minutes to leave the sun and reach us. You couldn't help but love that light traveling so far through the loneliest of spaces to get here, to come so far. It was like we were the only two people in the world.

There it is, he'd say reverentially. The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make believe.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived, —THOMAS MERTON

To find meaning is to find the connection between ourselves and everyone else. We need to know where we belong and how our efforts affect our world. Whether or not we are people of faith, we are curious about eternal things. Even if we try to shelve our spiritual questions, our subconscious minds continue to wonder.

Anything is magic if you don't understand how it happens, and science if you do.

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new.

because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

This is how we leave the world, with the heart weeping, and the hope that distance brings the solving wonder of one last clear view before that long sleep about the weather's changes

Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending.

I didn't know the world could be like this ... I've never seen the sky in such a passion of kindness.