Quotes About Wonder

In so wild and so beautiful a region your first day will be spent, every sight and sound novel and inspiring, and leading you far from yourself.

This is the alpenglow, the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God.

Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

The earth is full of thresholds where beauty awaits the wonder of our gaze.

The wonder of an object is that it is not a thought. A thing is first and foremost itself. An inconsequential pebble picked up on the side of the road has preceded us by anything up to four hundred million years, and its face will be brightened still further by rain that will fall here thousands of years after we have vanished. We might change things in the world, yet the most minimal, seemingly insignificant object outlasts us.

IT IS STRANGE TO BE HERE. THE MYSTERY NEVER LEAVES YOU alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking.

One of the most exciting and energizing forms of thought is the question. I always think that the question is like a lantern. It illuminates new landscapes and new areas as it moves. Therefore, the question always assumes that there are many different dimensions to a though that you are either blind to or that are not available to you. One of the reasons that we wonder is because we are limited, and that limitation is one of the great gateways of wonder.

Imagination according to William Blake is about the awakening to and recognition of the sacredness of all the difference that there is. Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake.

I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.

Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than their facts.

The real mystery is not that things are the way they are, but that there is something rather than nothing.

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking. Thought

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

But they seemed to be moving lights, moving in some complex pattern that defied explanation. The image was there for only a moment but it seared itself on his soul. He knew, in his heart, that they were not just stars, not burning bits of gas, but souls, entities. Perhaps even fuzzy children's toys, waving a farewell salute. He felt, in that brief instant, that he truly knew what it meant to touch the face of God.

She was wondering about that when the 300-grain .338 slug ripped through her heart. Grant felt no impact, no pain. She did feel

But define 'completely ridiculous shit,' Duvall said. Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.

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.

Is it a shark made of ice? Hanoen asked. Or a shark that lives in ice?

What the hell?" she asked, after a moment. "Lovely," Wilson said, looking at the display. "And by 'lovely,' I mean 'Oh, crap.

How is it so far?" asked Cloud. "How is what so far?" "This," Cloud said, and motioned around him. "Life. The universe. Everything.

a classic children's book from Catherynne Valente.

Their lives were their own, and in their way they loved and feared and wondered and hoped. They did not expect me to be the end of all of that.