Quotes About Wonder

Îmi imaginez Paradisul ca pe un fel de bibliotec?.

Ya no es mágico el mundo. Te han dejado.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

The really human thing is to see the stars above the roof, to preserve our apprehension of the universality of things in the midst of the habits of daily life, and to see the world above and beyond our immediate environment.

We have let an empty future that we propose to make by our own standards become the ideal over and against a real past that revealed to us what man really was and is: namely, a being open to wonder who did not create himsel for the world in which he dwells.

Your life is a sheer gift.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Awe is what moves us forward.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.

It's important to live life with the experience, and therefore the knowledge, of its mystery and of your own mystery. This gives life a new radiance, a new harmony, a new splendor.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[6

But the mystery of the being of your wristwatch will be identical with the mystery of the being of the universe and of yourself as well.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

Awe, you see, is what moves us forward.

The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function—that is the one I've been speaking about, realizing what a wonder the universe is

My heart goes out to the playing and singing folk, the folk who are forever on the roads. Life is change; and to be seeing new wonders every day—the thrown sea, the silver rush of the meadow, the lights in distant towns—is to be living, and not merely existing. I pity the man who is content to stay always in the place where his mother dropped him; that is, unless his thoughts wander. For one might sit on a midden and dream stars!

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer.

Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,Gold that I never see.

On the rocks of a bay so blue, it made her gray eyes glow.

Most magic wasn't even magic. It just was.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Though I have looked everywhereI can find nothing lowlyin the universe.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.