Quotes About Wonder

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

See stars through the mind's eye. Pay attention. Catch them looking back.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

Maybe this was the meaning of life: to live in the darkness of Plato's cave and stare endlessly into the void, but to make pancakes and watch Woody Allen movies and look at the sun coming through the skylights. Those were the comforts of not having true knowledge of the world, but of being a part of it and being amazed by it.

They were both my patients and they were two kids. I took care of both of them....Of both their bodies. And...for a brief moment I wondered if this is how God feels when he looks down at us. How we are all his kids....Our bodies....Our souls....And I felt a great deal of compassion....For both of them....

I marvel at your power to be mistaken.

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Sometimes," she murmured, "on cold, starry nights in Minnesota, if you stand really still and listen really hard . . . you'll freeze solid.

Out of the blood of my mother's heart, through the tears she poured out day and night, a sacrifice was offered up to you in my behalf, and you dealt with me in a wondrous way.

A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman knows.

This night I'm thinking of, it had one of those skies where the stars looked poured from a barrel.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

I get so excited over sunsets and rainbows etc, when you see them it's like you can shut out the real world and envelop yourself in a beauty that almost makes it feel like fantasy.

So when the night overshadowed him, he saw a star. He said: Is this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I love not the setting ones.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

People will always believe in something, without proof, just to feed their curiosity.

The concept of heaven is so beautiful to the point where imagination rules the world.

The full experience of something beautiful or terrifying cannot be expressed in words.

The miraculous birth of Jesus is so easy to believe since it happened to another man with his wife. But it will be impossible to accept it in our generation, or when it happens to any of us.

There is always a touch of magic in every miracle and a touch of miracle in every magical trick.