Quotes About Wonder

Jennifer, I asked, what do you ever do besides read? She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, I think.

When the sun came through the [stained-glass] windows, I felt that I was standing inside of God's kaleidoscope.

As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night, awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

THREE days crawled slowly out of the east and followed one another across the steaming jungle and over the edge of the world beyond.

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

If Hesiod did write it, then a humble peasant, living on a lonely farm far from cities, was the first man in Greece to wonder how everything had happened, the world, the sky, the gods, mankind, and to think out an explanation. Homer never wondered about anything.

The sense of the wonder of human life, its beauty and terror and pain, and the power in men to do and to hear, is in Æschylus and in Shakespeare as in no other writer. Thy

East of the sun and west of the moon.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

His heart beat with awe: he felt that he had never before beheld love visible.

It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.... The visible is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still worm my hands thankfully by the old fire, through every year it is fed with the dry wood of more memories. --A Backward Glance

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.

Do not all these things interest you? Isn't it a fine thing to be alive when so many great things are happening?

And later times thinges more vnknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene? What if within the Moones fayre shining sphere, What if in euery other starre vnseene Of other worldes he happily should heare?

I still feel like a young girl, as though everything is about to happen.

I am a doctor. A.B.... M.A.... PH.D....ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.I'm really very mistrustful.

Creativity is magic, don't examine it too closely.

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?