Wonder Quotes
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"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"I just sprayed cologne on my hand and then pet the back of my cat's head while he slept, and he woke up so confused, trying to sniff behind his neck and all around wondering what sweet attack he was under."
"Before the NSA there was the Catholic Church. What is confessional if not a place to gather secrets? No wonder the church had all the power."
"I need more frugality. I wonder where I can buy some."
"I think about her sometimes, and wonder what she’s doing and who she’s doing it with. I suppose I could just stalk her Facebook page like a normal person, but that doesn’t seem as romantic as surveillance and GPS tracking."
"Life is difficult."
"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."
"Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion."
"I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special."
"I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says. "Yeah, I agree," said August. "Which is kind of a shame, you know what with all those babes who keep throwing themselves at me and stuff?"
"Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it."
"Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved."
"From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset"
"As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder."
Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
"The wonders of God is beyond description."
"Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers.And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder."
"To wonder is to be wise."
"The wound is the seed of wonder."
"Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in."
"The wilderness leads to wonder of the moment."
"Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory"
"Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don’t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")"
"You, Faery Man, are wonderful."
"The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty."
"When God holds the Crayons you can expect a masterpiece."
"Wonder is the starter kit for innovation"
"The world of wonder is wonderful wilderness."
"Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do."
"The longer the wondering, the longer the writing."
"Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life."
"I can escape to the blissful realms between the pages of books."
"Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture."
"Imagine a life, full of love?"
"I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself."
"Life is a story, until I awake and saw life as a dream."
"How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage."
"It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person."
"Relationships may become wrecked by a quirky syndrome: the “Ain't broke, don't fix”-syndrome. When there is no interaction in the neural network and no breakthrough into the mind but only a shallow skin experience, living together might be very torturous. If a heartfelt bond has not been molded, nothing can be broken and thus nothing needs to be fixed. (“I wonder what went wrong.”)"
"I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you."
"It takes you to bring the hidden wonders into light. Decide to make it happen."
"Don't be easy to define. Let them wonder about you."
"We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged."
"Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time."
"It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know."
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destru"
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy."
"But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand."
"One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable."
"We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny"
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed."
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