Quotes About Wonder

Delivered helpless and amazed From the womb of the All, I am waiting dazed For memory to be erased. Then I shall know the Elysium That lies outside the monstrous womb Of time from out of which I come.

All the things that are lovely—   The things you never knew— I wanted to gather them one by one   And bring them to you.

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

He crouched down, and carefully put his finger through the thorns into the round door of the nest. It's almost as if you were feeling inside the live body of the bird, he said... After that, Miriam came to see it everyday. It seemed so close to her. Again, going down the hedge side with the girl, he noticed the celandines, scalloped slashes of gold, on the side of the ditch. I like them, he said, when their petals go flat back with the sunshine. They seem to be pressing themselves at the sun.

Now I look with wonder, with tenderness, with joyful yearning towards that which is outside me, beyond me, not me. Behold, that which was once negative has now become the only positive. The other being is now the great positive reality, I myself am as nothing. Positivity has changed places.

Even the real scientist works in the sense of wonder. The pity is, when he comes out of his laboratory he puts aside his wonder along with his apparatus, and tries to make it all perfectly didactic.

Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna

If there are fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.

Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.

Around the world, we are most likely to feel awe when moved by moral beauty, the first wonder of life in our taxonomy.

appeared on their backs. Then Kirsty and Rachel noticed that the

goblin's eyes widened with excitement. "Ooh! I feel just like

amazing," said Rachel. She reached

As Rachel turned around to smile at her best friend, she saw a beautiful sight

Let's try, said Evelyn. Let's do it for the mermicorns.

Surprised, Kirsty peered at the conveyor

She found such ecstasy looking at the soap bubbles and sparrows that she closed her book with these words: " 'Dear Lord,' I whisper, 'Our Father in Heaven, I thank Thee. I thank Thee.' " Imagine thanking God because you can wash dishes and see rainbows in bubbles and sparrows flying through the snow!

In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.

The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is seen not as wonderful but as something that can be explained as a dyadic system.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.