Quotes About Wonder

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forces lie just outside the range of physical sight, but entirely within the range of spiritual vision, precisely as the tellers of these old stories divined; mystery and wonder enfold all things, and not only evoke the full play of the mind, but flood it with intimations and suggestions of the presence of more elusive and subtle forces, of finer and more obedient powers, as the world of fairies, magi and demons enfolded the ancient earth of daily toil and danger.

THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP

Little Two Eyes went home

It was hard to comprehend how profoundly the world needed to scratch the Arctic itch.

She had the feeling that somehow, in the far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

Das Leben ist verrückt! Und ich finde das wunderbar. Wer das nicht merkt, verschläft das Schönste.

We have heard the fact; let us seek the mystery.

The whole world is a series of miracles ... but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.

Often I ask, deeply moved in my heart, Why does God grant me so much happiness. Where everything is given one, one cannot be proud, one bows one's head in humility.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake.

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

26There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.

Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.

What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.

I envy her her tears. I wonder what they feel like. I wonder if they hurt.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.