Quotes About Wonder

Rather than looking for miracles, shift to seeing everything as miraculous.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

We must bask in the magnificence of what is seen and sensed, instead of always memorizing and categorizing.

Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little?

You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.

Albert Einstein was right: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

bask in the magnificence of what is seen and sensed

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little? A heart starts beating inside a mother's womb a few weeks after conception, and it's a total mystery to everyone on our planet. In comparison to what there is to know, we are only embryos. Keep this in mind whenever you encounter those who are absolutely certain that there's only one way to do something. Resist being a pessimist.

Spend more time close to home in awe over the many simple treasures that make up your life.

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating.

Mirando atrás hacia segundo grado, me gusta pensar que era por lo mejor en parte la curiosidad científica lo que me hacía perseguir es beso, pero para ser honesta, eran probablemente más esos ojos azules.

wondered at how much emotion can go into any given day, and thought how nice it was to feel this way at the end of it.

We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn't see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.

At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

Never forget: we are alive within mysteries. - Wendell Berry

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Some people think that there are no fairies. But it is a wide world, and plenty of room in it for fairies, without people seeing them; unless, of course, they look in the right place.

There must be fairies; for this is a fairy tale: and how can one have a fairy tale if there are no fairies?

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

[Linus:] After you've died, do you get to come back?[Charlie Brown:] If they stamp your hand.