Quotes About Wonder

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

I wonder where we go when we die?" "…Pittsburgh?" "You mean if we're good or if we're bad?

Paul Gauguin asked, whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going? Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy, let's go exploring!

The best proof of extraterrestrial intelligence is that they haven't contacted us.

Quando olha para o céu e vê o infinito através das estrelas, você percebe que há coisas mais importantes do que as pessoas fazem todo dia.

Sometimes impossible things are entirely possible, if there's magic enough in the world.

For, after all, what is man in nature? ...a middle point between all and nothing...What else can he do, then, but perceive some semblance of the middle of things, eternally hopeless of knowing either their principles or their end? All things have come out of nothingness and are carried onwards to infinity. Who can follow these astonishing processes? The author of these wonders understands them: no one else can.

Wisdom is a return to childhood.

There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they will say. Far from it; I stiffen myself against it for that very reason, for fear of being corrupted by prejudice. But, though I was born in it, I cannot help finding it astonishing.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.

Miracle does not always signify miracle.

l'silence eternal de ces espaces infinis m'effraie

Bu sonsuz mekânlar?n ebedi suskunluÄŸu beni ürkütüyor.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

we went outside and the night was really still and the stars were like an explosion across the sky.

Perhaps Calder's secret lies in the idea that each mobile is, truly, a metaphor for the experience of living, for the interconnected movement of separate elements that make up a life. Each mobile tells us to stop, to wonder, to wonder some more, and to celebrate.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze, leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder