Quotes About Wonder

Normal,' I muttered. 'I wonder what that is.

questions more readily than an adult. I looked at him. He looked back, curious and unafraid. He was not Rufus. I could see

He shrugged. "It happened. I saw it. You vanished and you reappeared. Facts.

Harry hiked back to Glory, the nearest small town that we had passed through, to talk to the local cops. They were, or they professed to be, sheriff's deputies. I wonder what you have to do to become a cop. I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal. What did it used to be to make people Bankole's age want to trust it. I know what the old books say, but still, I wonder.

The questions little children ask drive you insane because they never stop. But they also make you think.

J'ai fait un art selon moi. Je l'ai fait avec les yeux ouverts sur les merveilles du monde visible, et, quoi qu'on en ait pu dire, avec le souci constant d'obéir aux lois du naturel et de la vie.

O, money, money, money, I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, But I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

It was very strange that I, who knew the whole extent of space and time, and counted the wandering stars like sheep, overlooking none, but I who was the most awakened of all beings, I, the glory which myriads in all ages had given their lives to establish, and myriads had worshipped, should now look about me with the same overpowering awe, the same abashed and tongue-tied worship as that which human travelers in the desert feel under the stars.

Uve?er promatram Veneru, podrobno pratim promjene te lijepe Gospo?ice. Više je volim kao ve?ernju zvijezdu, kada se pojavljuje niotkud, kao za?arana, i spušta za Suncem, Iskra vje?ne svjetlosti. Upravo u Sumrak zbivaju se najzanimljivije stvari, jer tada se zagla?uju jednostavne razlike. Mogla bih živjeti u vje?nom Sumraku." str. 48.

As I stood there, gazing at the pulpits, I could turn around at any moment to take gentle hold of the sharp, jagged line of the horizon as if it were a strand of hair. To look beyond it.

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes.

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

Opening his eyes, gazing at the vastness above, below, and all around, J.D. inquired, "Do you believe in immortality?" as casually as if inquiring if she believed in free trade. "I don't know. Do you?" "I don't know either. I want terribly to believe that there's a chance for such happiness as this to be carried on somehow, somewhere, if not in this life, then in the next.

There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become the sardonic bark of disbelief. Absurdity is the new sublime

who look on the world and the universe they are born in with quite other eyes. To

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

El solo hecho de poseer un hígado y dos riñones ¿no justificaría que nos pasáramos los días aplaudiendo a la vida y a nosotros mismos? ¿Y no basta con abrir los ojos y mirar, para convencerse que la realidad es, en realidad, el más autentico de los milagros?

When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.

The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon our soul.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

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