Quotes About Wonder

I am waylaid by beauty.

Beauty is that which excites the soul.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.

The best things in life don't make sense

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

A great library is anything and everything. It is not for its current custodians to judge what the future will find to be of importance, and it is this eclecticism that gives it the mystique, that is the wonder of it.

Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things that pleased and startled me. 'Are there dragons?' she asked. I said that there were not. 'Have there ever been?' I said all the evidence was to the contrary. 'But if there is a word dragon,' she said, 'then once there must have been dragons.

Churches have always seemed to me almost irrefutable evidence. They make me wonder if – just possibly – I might be wrong.

There are some supremely agreeable moments in life that are best savoured alone -- the first barefoot step into a cold sea, the reading of certain books, the revelation that it has snowed in the night, waking up on one's birthday... And others the full wonder of which can only be achieved if someone else is there to observe.

Olharam-se. Maravilharam-se. E o amor era a capacidade de se maravilharem a cada instante.

Descartes said that animals were automata. I have always been certain that it was the threat of torture that stopped him saying the same held true for human beings. Neither I nor Matthew had time for souls. That we were intricate chemical machines never diminished our sense of wonder, our reverence for Vermeer and for Monet, our floating bodies in the salty water, our evanescent joy before the dying of the light.

Como si se tratara de un folleto turístico: un único objetivo se presenta como aventura. Para el folleto, la aventura será un fuego de campamento -para mí lo será el agua que corre al borde de la acera, la superficie suave y lisa de la crema de zapatos en una lata nueva, la cama recién cambiada, una persona anciana aún curiosa.

Als das Kind Kind war, erwachte es einmal in einem fremden Bett und jetzt immer wieder, erschienen ihm viele Menschen schön und jetzt nur noch im Glücksfall