Quotes About Wonder

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Talk about enchantment. Forget about working for something just to have it fall apart on you. Let the magic come. That's what I say. Let the magic come and fill in every inch of that little black crack behind your breastbone.

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything's old hat. They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

I've never seen her laugh like this before. It's a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World's Largest Prairie Dog.

when you're a little kid. Everything is a sparkling wonder.

You think beauty's in some classroom or some textbook, and it's not. That's not what it's about. This right here. This is beautiful. All of this. That's all you need.

As the three of us walked, we caught the occasional glimpse of a shambling thing lurking in an alley or dark eyes peering through broken shutters in an abandoned building, but we made sure not to disturb them and they in turn didn't seek to devour our souls. A good arrangement all the way around, as far as I was concerned.

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tide of rivers, the vast compass of the ocean, the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought." We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.

I care to live only to entice people to look at nature's loveliness," Muir said

Here in the corner attic of America, two hours' drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.

Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles." To do the impossible (sail around the world, break the four-minute mile, reach the moon), you need to ignore the popular.

Follow your curiosity, wherever you can find

Celebrate the childlike mind." Steve Jurvetson

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

y lo único que haces de momento (Will de veinte años) es divagar y pensar.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

I took my own divinity where I could find it, and most of the time it was measured in small sips, usually delivered through natural beauty and acts of unprovoked kindness.

People never cease to amaze me.

Infatti mi sono sempre chiesto come fai, a essere così miracolosamente immune dai travagli dell'intelligenza

Vivo ora, qui, con la sensazione che l'universo è straordinario, che niente ci succede per caso e che la vita è una continua scoperta. E io sono particolarmente fortunato perché, ora più che mai, ogni giorno è davvero un altro giro di giostra.

Fermati ogni tanto. Fermati e lasciati prendere dal sentimento di meraviglia davanti al mondo

Folco, diese Welt ist ein Wunder! Sie ist ein unglaubliches Wunder! Und wenn du es schaffst, dich als Teil dieses Wunders zu fühlen - nicht das Du mit den zwei Augen und den zwei Füssen, sonderd das DU, Dein innerstes Wesen - was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Hm? Was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Ein neues Auto?

Vivo ora, qui, con la sensazione che l'universo è straordinario, che niente, mai ci succede per caso e che la vita è una continua scoperta. E io sono particolarmente fortunato perché, ora più che mai, ogni giorno è davvero un altro giro di giostra.