Quotes About Wonder

A key feature of awe, psychologists Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt have argued, is that it quiets self-interest and makes individuals feel part of the larger whole. 12

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?...

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

T]o give the children a sense of magic. Nobody attends to this enough. They give them too much realism. They can see it all on the box, they can see frightful things there. But they're not being given a world to escape to … the world of the imagination. Children must have an escape line somewhere.

But I never did manage to tell you because I could never quite put the words together to express something so complex and sordid and exciting and stupid,. I still wonder how that conversation might have gone.

Something about being overwhelmed, just momentarily, by the beauty of existence.

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

I saw it written and I saw it sayPink moon is on its wayAnd none of you stand so tallPink moon's gonna get you all.

Galaxies are not scarce. There are at least one hundred billion in the universe, with each containing roughly one hundred billion stars. That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – or ten sextillion – stars altogether, perhaps many more. It's an unintelligible number, and then an awe-striking one – and then a horror story.

But whatever our beliefs, this richness of understanding should be a cause for marvel and celebration.

Wonderful. Save the world, and all it earns you is suspicion and surveillance. Par for the course for IDF, Granger thought, grimly. It was a wonder Earth still existed after not one, but two alien invasions, given the level of rampant bureaucracy and mistrust and general incompetency. But

Only the curious have something to find.

Want on legs," Gwladus said when she saw him. "Though for what, I don't know.

Just as I thought I was beginning to know this world and understand it, it throws more magic at me." "What's life without magic? Turn your magic into a song, share it with others." "You know I can't sing." "A story, then.

Mead produced grater miracles than all the prayers in the world.

Hild wasn't listening. He wondered what paths she walked in her head.

Hild wondered how it must feel to have someone you didn't quite trust make prophecies about what mattered most to you in the world.

She touched the pool and fell the echo of that faraway lake, the promise of all that was wide and bright and clear that she would one one day find.

At this time of night, anything was possible.

She had no idea what path her mother's thoughts might be taking.

All she heard was a blackbird, far away, and the burble of the spring. She wondered where the water came from. She wondered this in British, the language of wild and secret places.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.