Quotes About Wonder

I will never eat another pancake that appears out of nowhere.

When you looked at me with those limitless, deliquescent eyes of yours, I used to wonder what it was you could possibly see in me. Now I know that is a foolish view of love. You and I could no more not love each other than the earth could stop circling the sun.

Y, por más que lo intento, no entiendo cómo puedes estar satisfecha con una vida tan minúscula. Esta vida que tiene lugar en un radio de poco más de cinco kilómetros y que no incluye a nadie capaz de sorprenderte, exigirte o mostrarte cosas que te dejen boquiabierta y no te dejen dormir de noche.

I looked at my boyfriend and wondered if he was actually an alien.

I took a deep breath, enjoying the unexpectedness of it all.

That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

Every time I think I know everything about horses, there is something more to surprise me. "I feel the same way about humans," Mac said.

I had never, in my life, imagined I would spend time somewhere like this. Every morning I woke to the sound of the sea breaking gently on the shore, unfamiliar birds calling to each other from the trees.

I didn't think places like this existed outside films.

But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.

I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes.

From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone. • DR. MARIE STOPES, Married Love

Recuerdo haber mirado las estrellas, sentirme desaparecer en esa profundidad infinita, mientras el suelo se tambaleaba con dulzura

I stared in disbelief at the little oasis of calm and beauty that had been created from my barren rooftop.

That some things are a gift, even if you don't get to keep them.' There was a silence before he spoke again. 'Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

Dibujé el mundo que él había creado para mí, lleno de maravillas y posibilidades. Le hice saber que una herida había sido curada de un modo que él no podría ni imaginar, y solo por eso siempre habría una parte de mí que le estaría agradecida.

Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

I felt like my sister, when she had first given birth to Thomas. "It's like I'm looking through a funnel," she had said, gazing at his newborn form. "The world has just shrunk to me and him.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

She could have ... People still wanted to know.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. —Eden Phillpotts Just

Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

And to Conrad, it seemed as though he had entered some strange world beyond our own, where nothing was as it appears, and anything could be possible.