Quotes About Wonder

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky!

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

In the present, every day is a miracle.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

Is like finding a diamond asteroid in the rings of Saturn

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

Život je neshvatljivo ?udo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji ?vrtso- kao na Drini ?uprija.

?im po?ne da zri leto, neka snaga, za koju ne znam da li dolazi iz mene ili iz svetova oko mene, digne me kao vlaga klicu put svetlosti, i ja putujem, vozim se, plovim, letim. Drugim re?ima, sre?an sam, jer ne bih mogao kazati gde sam.

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?

Instead, someone decided to create little moments of beauty to do the simplest, smallest job in the world, because why shouldn't that be beautiful?

It's always a pleasure watching you wake up, he commented. But sometimes I wonder if you want me only for my coffee. Well... She grinned at him and sipped again. I really like the food, too. And the sex isn't bad.