Quotes About Wonder

Por qué querer otro universo cuando en este hay perros?

rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty.

Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.

see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvelous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things

If there is a sunset, stop and look at it. Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

When you look up at the sky, on a clear night, and see thousands of stars and planets, realise that very little is happening on most of them. The important stuff is further away.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices .

if you see magic often enough it starts to look normal.

Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

ROY NEARY: Just close your eyes and hold your breath and everything will turn real pretty. —Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

But it is sometimes more fun to explore than to know. And you might find that you love the voyage in all its stumbling uncertainty.

Magic can be found everywhere, if you know how to look for it. ... And where there is magic, there was hope.

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfect intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries, but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

Dar e mereu bine sa stim ce minunate ar parea atatea lucruri din viata noastra daca ar deveni rare.

Well, I'm thinking about how life is so miraculous, none of it really deserves the title 'reality.' 

Cerul nu incepe deasupra noastra. Nu exista un punct de inceput pentru cer. Noi traim in cer.

You see, sometimes, a single child believing in magic - if they believe enough - is enough to restore order to the universe.

Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.

Life is full of strange phenomena.

Sometimes just the sight of a tree or sunset can smack you with the power of every tree or sunset you have ever seen

Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

The heightened sanity of science and the sheer lunacy of magic. It's in the area where they overlap that we both are able to find... ecstasy!