Quotes About Wonder

Do you know that if you close your eyes really tightly, so you can see stars, when you open them again it's a brand new world.

The first pale suggestion of dawn has appeared on the horizon as a faint grey smudge. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the real dark night of the soul is always three o'clock in the morning, but that's not right. The darkest part of the night is just before dawn when we wake and peer through the curtains and wonder where the world has gone.

Awareness is the ultimate sacred wonder.

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. —J. J. Van der Leeuw

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

Reading opens the soul to new journeys.

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink? That is deep and sacred science.

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

So that's it. That's the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year's eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don't know all the detatils, just the basics. She took a bunch of pills. I don't know what they were or where she got them. I'd like to think they were Wonder Drug. Then at least she could have gone thinking she was flying.

Trump would shortly become a Gorsuch fan. But before settling on Gorsuch, he wondered why the job wasn't going to a friend and loyalist. In the Trump view, it was rather a waste to give the job to someone he didn't even know.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

I continued to wonder what exactly I had done to deserve a woman like Valerie. Nothing, probably. I observe the world as it unfurls, I thought; proceeding empirically, in good faith, I observe it; I can do no more than observe.

De eeuwigheid van de kindertijd is een korte eeuwigheid, maar dat weet hij nog niet; het landschap glijdt voorbij.

He visto claramente a Dios En su Inexistencia; En su maravillosa nada He aprovechado mi oportunidad.

À force de regarder les étoiles, tu t'es mise à aimer l'univers.

Il m'a regardé comme si je sortais d'une boîte de Cracker Jacks.

When we start to realize how amazing God's story is, a question naturally arises: "Who am I that I should get to be a part of the greatest story ever told?

For your information, I do love you. Although at times like this I have to wonder why.