Quotes About Wonder

Visual design proved to be a fifth wonder of life. Buildings, terra-cotta warriors in China, dams, and paintings appeared in stories of awe from around the world.

Stories of spiritual and religious awe were a sixth wonder of life. These weren't as common as you might imagine, given our perennial search for nirvana, satori, bliss, or samadhi.

Stories of life and death, the seventh wonder of life, were common around the world.

This story leads us to epiphanies—when we suddenly understand essential truths about life—which were the eighth wonder of life.

This story leads us to epiphanies—when we suddenly understand essential truths about life—which were the eighth wonder of life. Around the world, people were awestruck by philosophical insights, scientific discoveries, metaphysical ideas, personal realizations, mathematical equations, and sudden disclosures (such as a wife leaving her husband for his best friend) that transform life in an instant.

the "small self" effect of awe arises in all eight wonders of life, and not just vast nature. Finding awe in encounters with moral beauty, for example, or music, or when struck by big ideas, quiets the voice of that interfering and nagging neurotic.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

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And made Nina see rainbows and stars and stupid-assed unicorns.

I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.

principles of freethought is that no question is unaskable.

I want to make the world a more magickal place. To give magick a form that people appreciate, and that changes their lives. To create art that will make people want to forever reject the mundane and mediocre world they've been surrounded by

I saw a spaceship fly by your window. Did you see it disappear?

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.

Hello, Julie," he says. "I am commencing to wonder what becomes of you. I am walking around here for weeks trying to keep warm and I am all tuckered out. What do you suppose is the idea of not providing people with overcoats when they are placed to rest? Only I do not rest, Julie. Do you see Beatrice lately and what does she says about my stone?

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its revelation. Wonder, to preserve itself, withdraws. It withdraws from the mind, from the willing mind, which would make of mystery a category.

We are not so much who we are by what we know, but by what we wonder. So go and seek and you shall find. And once you find that, go and seek some more.

It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident or design, the microscopic pieces of ourselves borne by fluids and blood and growing into a tiny kingdom of cells inside someone else's body It seems so difficult to become alive. So improbable.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when it's Mighty Founder was a child Himself. Charles Dickens