Quotes About Wonder

Zorba sees everything everyday as if for the first time.

Gehurkt aan de waterrand volgde ik het wonder. De sterren verbleekten, de hemel werd lichter, en tegen het licht tekenden met fijne pen de bergen, de bomen, de meeuwen zich af. De dag brak aan.

Every morning when he opens his eyes and observes trees, the sea, stones, a bird, he cries with wide open mouth, "What a miracle this is! What is the meaning of trees, the sea, stones, a bird?

Nu-i r?spundeam; ascultându-l pe Zorbas, simÈ›eam c? lumea îÈ™i recap?t? fericirea în fiecare clip?. Lucruri de zi cu zi, p?lite de mult, îÈ›i rec?p?tau str?lucirea pe care o avuseser? la început, când ieÈ™ir? din mâinile Domnului. Apa, femeia, pâinea reveneau la izvorul primordial, tainic, È™i roata divin? prindea din nou avânt în slava cerului.

in your heart life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.

I can't understand why anyone would write fiction when what actually happens is so amazing.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail ? Nora Ephron

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

It's always seemed to me things are more exciting when you're not looking and you find them.

Have you ever wondered why life gets so screwed up? "Yes." She smiled. "I've begun to believe that God really is a man.

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars?

You almost forget there's any place else in the world.

Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?

Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic.

Il y a dans notre amour plus de magie que la plupart des gens n'en connaîtront jamais.

If you walked through the woods alone, in the dark, and didn't have some sense of wonder, it was hardly worth the trip.

How we ever came from the same parents is a wonder. Nothing suits you more than a crowd, and nothing suits me less.

I don't believe in demons, That isn't a lie. But I have seen what was once the unbelievable. I've seen the beauty and the wonder of it. I believe what we've termed the uncanny - there is light and dark in them, as there is light and dark in all of us - will also be swept up and detained and tested. And, I fear, that what H5N1-X leaves us, all of us, will not destroy us, but the fear and violence it breeds in those of us who give in to it - the forced restrictions on freedom - could.

Connor stared at his arm, at the huge black burn, the peeling and bubbling skin. He felt oddly detached from it all, as if he looked at some little wonder behind glass. "Would you look at that?" he said, and passed out.

Other lives just fascinated her.