Quotes About Wonder

He has a tendency to slip the bounds of the real, tangible world around him and enter another place. He

Qué curioso, piensa ella, tener a otro tan cerca: la escala desbordante de las pestañas, de los párpados cerrados, del pelo de la frente, todo mirando hacia el mismo sitio.

He has a tendency to slip the bounds of the real, tangible world around him and enter another place.

What do you think, Father said, and I said, she is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, and she was, she was—

A bee drones by, scribbling on the air near their heads...

I spent quite a while gazing out and pondering what primeval forces had conspired together to create such a place. Then I ate my sandwiches.

Je m'étonne/ De ceux qui, connaissant l'amour, aiment encore!

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.

Quiere ser una mariposa. ¿Las mariposas tienen recuerdos? Las mariposas son los recuerdos del que sabe cantar junto a las fuentes. ¿Y el canta? Aún es pequeño.

Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild Bedouin sees geometric forms but doesn't understand them ; the Sunni understands them but does not admire them; the artist, finally, perceives the perfection of figures, understands beauty, and admires order and harmony.God was the Great Geometer.He geometrized heaven and earth.

Those fools, the poets, compare a girl in the bloom of youth to a flower. But that's not right; flowers are too tough. A soap bubble would be better. A thing of wonder, too fragile to exist.

it will be miraculous, very miraculous.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

I wonder where will I go now? The net is vast and indefinite.

la cara linda y alegre del muchacho en el recuerdo de la sirvientita y me digo yo: ¿qué es lo que la hace linda a una cara?, ¿por qué dan tantas ganas de acariciarla a una cara linda?

Y ya no deseaba sino quedarse crucificada a la tierra, sufriendo y gozando en su carne el ir y venir de lejanas, muy lejanas mareas; sintiendo crecer la hierba, emerger islas nuevas y abrirse en otro continente la flor ignorada que no vive sino en un día de eclipse. Y sintiendo aún bullir y estallar soles, y derrumbarse, quién sabe dónde, montañas gigantes de arena.

Yo creo que el mundo olvida hasta qué punto vivimos apoyados en lo desconocido. Hemos organizado una existencia lógica sobre un pozo de misterios

a form of waiting that, depending on the circumstances, can resemble fascination, terror, curiosity, or hope.

It seems to me that if a little flower could speak, it would tell simply what God has done for it without trying to hide its blessings

what an interesting study the world is when one is ready to leave it!

Tessa caught her breath when the final string of letters appeared, sandwiching around the others, forming the words: YOU ARE ENTERING THE LAND OF LOVE

La vie a bien plus d'imagination que nous tous réunis, elle est parfois porteuse de petits miracles, tout est possible, il suffit d'y croire de toutes ses forces.

jurara a si próprio que permaneceria, fiel toda a sua vida à premissa que fizera um dia ao seu pai, a de nunca deixar de se maravilhar.

Alguna vez has convencido a un arbol de que se haga de noche para dejar paso a los pajaros?