Quotes About Wonder

Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian's vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something of poetic inspiration. Our faith ought to be capable of filling our hearts with a wonder and a wisdom which see beyond the surface of things and events, and grasp something of the inner and "sacred" meaning of the cosmos which, in all its movements and all its aspects, sings the praises of its Creator and Redeemer.2

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

She's the sort of girl who gets high easily, off the music, off a moment. Maybe I was like that when I first came down the Hill. All wide-eyed and trying to take it all in. Everything was exciting.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

This is the time and place to be alive: when the daily furniture of our lives stirs, when the improbable arrives. Pots and pans bang together in celebration, clang past the crowd of garlic, onions, spices, fly by the ceiling fan. No one is looking for the door. In all this excitement I'm wondering where I've left my feet, and why my hands are outside, clapping.

The whole structure leans dangerously towards the miraculous.

Vivere meravigliandosi. [...] Scrivere meravigliandosi.

And she wondered then how many amazing views she'd missed from the safety of her spot here at the bottom.

The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. ~ Eli Khamarov

Isn't it better to just leave some doors in our lives closed?" "Not if you're always going to wonder what might have been behind them.

there are numerous depressing occasions to wonder if waking consciousness is all there is to consciousness, or to human life

But any reading of bubble-gum wrappers from above 200 miles is marvelous, of course, and a definite kudo for science and technology.

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child there is more joy in a rubbish tip than a flowery rockery, in a fallen tree than a piece of statuary, in a muddy track than a gravel path.

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella?

He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and awkward and filled with a strange sense of wonder. And a stranger sense of grace.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

After all, the world is still great.

To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really see what the big deal is about getting to the Moon with the computers and the mid-course-corrections. I know you are a bunch of engineers, and you know better than I do, but I ask you ... once you get there beyond the atmosphere, do you or do you not see the Moon?

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

No one responds to the newness of new things like children.

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.