Quotes About Wonder

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? (I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)

Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful, And I should like to hear the name of anything between Sunday morning and Saturday night that is not just as wonderful.

A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle

Wonderful to depart! Wonderful to be here! The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood! To breathe the air, how delicious! To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand! To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh! To be conscious of my body, so satisfied, so large! To be this incredible God I am! To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love. - from Song at Sunset

This minute that comes to me over the past Decillions. There is no better than it And now. What behaves well In the past or behaves well To-day is not such a wonder. The wonder is always and Always how there can be A mean man or an infidel.

Diam dan kagum, ketika aku kecil, Aku ingat saat mendengar pendeta tiap hari Minggu memasukkan Tuhan ke dalam pernyataan, Walt Whitman

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.

Is there anybody there? said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door.

Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of the table; squatting like little children with their twigs and pins, fishing for wonders on the brink of the unknown.

It seemed to my young mind that there was not a day, scarcely an hour, I lived, but that Life was unfolding itself in ever new and ravishing disguises. I had not begun to be in the least tired or afraid of it. Smallest of bubbles I might be, tossing on the great waters, but I reflected the universe.

But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom

So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, "You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder years, or to let our children do so.

He had an imagination so excitable that it flirted with the edges of fantasy, which is also something we can try to preserve in ourselves and indulge in our children.

We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Sea curioso, infatigablemente curioso.

I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer.

Conserve la capacidad de asombro de un niño.