Quotes About Wonder

Un encanto de tipo. ¿Por qué no se morirá?

Durante la fe, durante la duda, el hastío nos visita como el sueño: en el instante en que la voluntad afloja su tensión. Pero cuando la fe y la duda se dejan descubrir en su ingenua, profunda relación, y sobreviene el asombro ante la absurdidad de la existencia, ante la maravillosa indiferencia de Dios, uno recupera la calma para siempre, y la calma para siempre es el hastío.

Quién habrá inventado la música? ¿El viento? ¿El mar? ¿La lluvia? ¿Cuándo habrá nacido la armonía? ¿Qué habrá sonado primero? ¿El lenguaje de la brisa o el canto del ruiseñor? Desde

Miércoles 10 de abril Avellaneda tiene algo que me atrae. Eso es evidente, pero ¿qué es?

The Antioch Beach library was like something out of a good dream, if you're the kind of person who dreams about libraries, which I am ...

I know a lot of people do jobs their whole lives that they don't find fascinating. Wonder is a luxury. But I wanted it.

With intellectual curiosity the world will always be full of magic and wonder.

I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.

Penny's bowels yearned over his son. He gave him something more that his paternity. He found that the child stood wide-eyed and breathless before the miracle of bird and creature, of flower and tree, of wind and rain and sun and moon, as he had always stood. And if, on a soft day in April, the boy had prowled away on his boy's business, he could understand the thing that had drawn him. He understood, too, its briefness.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

How did a nice girl like me get into a mess like this?

The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.

Develop some intellectual curiosity. If you have it, you will never be bored. If you haven't, cultivate it, hold fast to it. Never let it go. To the intellectually curious, the world will always be full of magic, full of wonder. You will be interesting to your friends, to your spouse, and a joy to your children. You will be alive to all the wonderful possibilities of this world.

Oftentimes the thing that makes the difference between a good student and a poor one, a good learner or a bored human being, is just a little curiosity. If you have it, cultivate it, feed it. Never let it go. If you do not have it - get it. Wonder, watch, ask questions, be alive. It's just that simple

Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.

she was born of the moon and stars and all of the beautiful things that shine through the darkness, and show us the light.

we take some big miracles for granted. We're on a planet that's spinning at a thousand miles per hour, traveling through space and we don't worry about God keeping our planet in orbit. We already trust God for the big miracles like our heart beating and today alone, we'll take a thousand breaths, but can we trust Him in the smaller things?

When we lose our sense of wonder, what we really lose is our soul. Our lack of wonder is really a lack of love.

We should live with a holy anticipation of what's around the corner.

Sometimes God shows up. Sometimes God shows off.

Es difícil no orar con fe cuando se está orando en un lugar donde Dios ya ha hecho un milagro.

Lord, surprise us.

Maybe faith has less to do with gaining knowledge and more to do with causing wonder. Maybe a relationship with God doesn't simplify your lives. Maybe it complicates our lives in ways that they should be complicated.