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Quotes About Wonder

Seguíamos encontrando cosas de Nueva York que enseñarnos; era como si estuviéramos viendo la ciudad por primera vez.
~ Nancy Garden
And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.
~ Nancy Garden
So beautiful, I forgot how to breathe.
~ Unknown
Une myriade d'extases. Sidère-moi, je dis au monde. Excite-moi, éblouis-moi, étourdis-moi, que ça ne s'arrête jamais.
~ Unknown
It's the first time I've seen early morning in a terribly long time— The sun all yellow and red, like a huge luminous peach hanging on a black shadow-tree—just visible thru the mist—
~ Nancy Milford
We travel to see the world in new ways, to feel ourselves fully in the world, immersed in the experience of discovery.
~ Unknown
Though evil is still evil, the wonder is that God is greater and can turn it to good.
~ Unknown
Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we'd see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs.
~ Nancy Thayer
The way I see it, I'm dead, and so are you. What do dead people do for fun around here?
~ Naomi Alderman
How many miracles does it take? Not too many.
~ Naomi Alderman
a kind of wonder at the secret chamber at the center of every human heart whose contents are unguessable from the outside.
~ Naomi Alderman
The baby girl was quite still except for her cheeks and lips sucking at her finger, and a rhythmical curving and straightening of her toes, as if some current of thick air were passing over them.
~ Naomi Mitchison
If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
You don't need to visit a foreign country or hike a desert canyon or go out on a cloudless, moonless night and get drunk on star champagne.
~ Natalie Angier
We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album? "Most of the time, when people walk outside at night and see the stars, it's a big, pretty background, and it's not quite real," said the Caltech planetary scientist Michael Brown. "It doesn't occur to them that the pattern they see in the sky repeats itself once a year, or to appreciate why that's true.
~ Natalie Angier
Or try the star-spangled bowl of a desert sky at night and consider that, as teeming as the proscenium above may seem to your naked gape, you are seeing only about 2,500 of the 300 billion stars in our Milky Way—and that there are maybe 100 billion other star-studded galaxies in our universe besides, beyond your unaided view.
~ Natalie Angier
We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?
~ Natalie Angier
For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Lighting a candle helps create a sense of magic.
~ Natalie Goldberg
No, miltä näyttää?" hän kysyy. "Erinomaiselta, olette yksinkertaisesti taikuri!" "Olen pelkkä mestari," hän vastaa
~ Unknown
My job is not to be right; it is to be in Christ. My job is to explore the wonders of His mercy and His grace together, in community.
~ Unknown
Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
~ Natsuki Takaya
When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed
~ Neal A. Maxwell