Quotes About Wonder

Tourists see invisible things. Sometimes their point of view eluded him. By now, he was often the first in the group to raise his camera: to a roadside shrine or a sunset, to a buffalo plowing a paddy, ribs curved like a boat. But why were the others laughing at a billboard advertising Perlwite soap? What was fascinating about two village women grinding chilies on a stone? The dust of familiarity still lay in patches on the scenes through which he moved.

George noticed her feet again. They were nuggety and rectangular, like a young child's feet—even the sparkly turquoise nail polish belonged to a child. He wondered if Pippa bothered with right and left shoes.

Pienso que es muy importante (al menos lo era para mí) que si vais a enseñar a la gente a hacer observaciones, tenéis que demostrar que de ellas puede surgir algo maravilloso.

Everything God made is beautiful.

The moon is, in fact, a hole in the sky. Consider.

Bring back your innocence and be a child once more, spring back in life. Dance in the rains, prance in your pains, wonder at the stars and romance the skies & get in tune with natural rhythms & get naturalized. Grow and know in the lap of mother nature and be MickeyMized.

This whole life is so magical, musical. Magic happens, it simply happens and more when you believe that out of nowhere miracles will pop up & pop out, like you did one day on this earth. Let magic miracles pop-u-la-rise, allow them to happen and simply MickeyMize.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

También a mí me dan miedo las estrellas y todas esas cosas que no se abarcan o no se acaban nunca

Luís Bernardo estava petrificado pela beleza e pelo pavor daquele espetáculo: tivessem-lhe dito que o mundo inteiro já acabar naquele instante, e ele teria acreditado.

Mas juro-te [burocrata do sector de viagens da RTP] que hás-de morrer sem conhecer o prazer de estar deitado de costas na areia, coberto de pó e de sujidade, a arrotar atum por todos os lados, com os músculos a doerem, e a olhar para um céu pejado de estrelas e pensar que é fantástico estar vivo.

If one reads the biographies of physicists like Bohr, Heisenberg, Chandrashekhar, and Bethe, one gets the impression that without hikes in the mountains and the vision of night skies their science would not have amounted to much.

I asked myself in the aftermath of the Siege of Terra whether the so-called victory was worth the cost. Now I wonder if we won at all.

You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even looking at it. Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer. Everything .

Anticipate the day as if it was your birthday and you are turning six again.

It's not the "hows" you're to be concerned with, but the "Wows!"—as long as there's understanding!

As you dream, the stars realign.

Rising suns and babbling brooks. Tropical forests and sleeping meadows. Modern marvels and scientific breakthroughs. Exciting discoveries and limitless frontiers. Devoted friends and caring strangers. Lives and loves and souls to hold so close, your heart could burst . . .

Continue to dig, continue to uncover the delights hidden within yourself, within the experience of life, within relationships and unions with others. Explore it all with the wonder, amazement, and curiosity of a child, even when those things that are uncovered are not desirable, for it is in the discovery of them that you can set them free.

I went to college: majored in philosophy. My father said, "Why don't you minor in communications so you can wonder out loud?"

We children moved constantly in a world where myth and fable walked hand in hand with reality, and the borderline between them was at all times nebulous and shifting. The violent world of fairytale with its Bluebeards and shirts made from thistles wasn't that far from ours.

Alice in Wonderland

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