Quotes About Wonder

In still earlier years than those I have been recalling, Holliday's Hill, in our town, was to me the noblest work of God. It appeared to pierce the skies. It was nearly three hundred feet high. In those days I pondered the subject much, but I never could understand why it did not swathe its summit with never-failing clouds, and crown its majestic brow with everlasting snows. I had heard that such was the custom of great mountains in other parts of the world.

How fairylike does everything appear to her enchanted vision!

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air!

The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before.

At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture. Bridgeport? said I, pointing. Camelot, said he.

That is the new miracle, and the greatest of all–Automatic Law!

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?

There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom apparently, and seem climbing up rapidly to the surface, till presently it threatened to touch our faces, and we could not resist the impulse to seize an oar and avert the danger.

feel as the good God feels when He looks out on His fleets of constellations ploughing the awful deeps of space and reflects with satisfaction that they are His—all His.

It was an effective miracle.

Eleinte nem tudtam rájönni, hogy miért vagyok, de most már azt hiszem, azért, hogy kikutassam ennek a csodálatos világnak a titkait, hogy boldog legyek és hálát adjak a TeremtÅ'nek azért, mert létrehozta. Azt hiszem, még sokat kell tanulnom – remélem.

The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. It is as if heaven's gates had swung open and exposed the throne. (Twain on seeing the Jungfrau.)

Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.

Å¿tairs! We haue found Å¿tairs!

How easily she finds the impossible in the ordinary.

Find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again

for where else could we have really gone?

Mi tuffo, tengo i palmi moooolto larghi, rovesciando il Mondo e sollevando il cielo, unendo insieme stratocumuli & terreno.

No doubt speculation will continue for a long time over what force alters and orders the dimensions of that place.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.