Quotes About Wonder

I look up at the stars, serene and brilliant and out of reach.

We who were her neighbors were full of gayety, which was but the reflected light from her beaming countenance. It was not the first time that I was full of wonder at the waste of human ability in this world, as a botanist wonders at the wastefulness of nature, the thousand seeds that die, the unused provision of every sort. The reserve force of society grows more and more amazing to one's thought.

And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

When I see her,' I said, 'it's like - I don't know what it's like. It's like I never saw anything at all before.

Be awed by the Power and the Glory of My Spirit within you! Though

What's it like where they live?" "It's everything you want it to be.

I just couldn't understand how you could go from being alive, from having molecules and blood cells constantly shifting around inside you, and thought processes and a mind full of memories and dreams and love and hate, and in just one tiny second these miraculous things stop and you're dead. How could all that disappear? What happened to your soul, your essence, your wonder? Just because a muscle stops beating? It made absolutely no sense.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

One is a world of cold fact and reality; the other is a world of magic and adventure.

LATE ONE NIGHT in early October 1913, William Yale lay in his tent in the mountains of Anatolia, struck by a sense of wonder at how quickly a life could change. Just three weeks earlier he had been living in

self-knowledge. You can't be productive as a creator if you're not paying attention to your own behavior and cultivating the unique wonder in this universe that is you.

the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. —JOHANNES KEPLER

Oh. You have a magic boy. Why didn't you say so?" The priest scratched his forehead beneath the white silk blindfold that covered his eyes. " Magnificent . I'll plant him in the fucking ground and grow a vine to an enchanted land beyond the clouds.

What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval.

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your years. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your ears. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants...that's MIRACULOUS.

Chien was careful to avoid debates over science and faith. To him, wonder was wonder and did not require further complications.

You have in your hand the Pearl of the Universe. The Paragon of Pearls. The great Pearl of Heaven!

I think it's fair to say most video games let players experience only eight emotions: anger, panic, dread, surprise, wonder, satisfaction, joy and disappointment. And some games only disappoint.

Restore to us the joy of your salvation, Jesus. Bring us back to the childlike wonder of our early days of knowing you. May your welcoming heart once again be extended to stranger and friend alike. Oh, to enjoy the favor of those around us simply because you are so clearly in our midst. I pray in your welcoming and renewing name. Amen.