Quotes About Wonder

there is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. Endymion Leer

The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.

Too much certainty is a miserable thing, while the unknowable has a pristine beauty and a wonder with no end.

But as even the internal evidences of scripture would be insufficient to support their authority without the concurrence of external evidence, so would the external be found wanting without the internal. But these together are abundantly sufficient to establish the credibility of this gospel, which is, like every thing else of the work and wisdom of God, the wonder and admiration of the believing soul.

as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.

When I kissed her, I felt that my heart would tear through my chest for excitement and wonder, and then I felt a good, empty sicknesss, if you can speak of anything in such contradictory terms.

There's a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.

And when I first saw you I first loved you With a song that I sang to the fire in your eyes But somebody told you that it wouldn't be easy And you carried that lie for the devil to sing Some sail rivers deep and muddy some sail rivers clear and cold But the river that I'm sailin' goes to sea And sometimes I do grow weary sometimes I feel old And sometimes I wonder if you think of me.

Soms verbeeld ik me dat ik de sneeuw kan ruiken. Ruik jij hem ook, Hans?' 'Ik geloof het wel, ja, het is een geur als van kristal,' zei ik. 'Heeft kristal dan een geur? ... Dat wist ik niet!' 'Nee, natuurlijk niet, maar als het een geur had zou het net de geur van sneeuw zijn.' 'Je bent een vreemde jongen,' lachte zij en voegde er na enig aarzelen spontaan aan toe: 'Een vreemde, lieve jongen.

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

I didn't feel so bad about the myrrh, because I've never been quite certain what it is.

It was like suddenly discovering a family of otters in one of your shoes. If you've ever done that.

faced with so much mystery, most of us find it hard to settle for simple awe.

It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass.

We gaan zien. Wij gaan zien. Toch.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

The right question is: where is the meaning in life? Meaning is a man-made concept. It's something we infer from those experiences that are self-evidently good, and stem from a feeling of joy and wonder. Meaning is not something that occurs in the future. It exists in the here and now, within the fact that our lives are finite. F

he looked up and around him in awe and amazement. And saw the faces in the architecture.

the small knot of raincoated citizens loitering at a waxman's booth suddenly cast off their waxed raincoats to become iridescent birds of paradise and pulled from the waxman's awning long, streaming banners with which they danced through the crowds of workaday citizens, wrapping them in rippling silk and mystery while from the back of the booth roman candles ignited and fountained silver fire into the air.

The man called Kilimanjaro West watched with wonder and delight and everything was new.