its a beautiful thing in my mind, to be involved with oneself, not in vanity, but in wonder, who knew such a small head could be big enough to contain reality itself. we really must...

I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).

It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philosophical wonder. The man who has never at any time felt consciously struck by the extreme strangeness and...

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.

It’s the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what’s beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.

I wonder how it is possible to believe in religion and also believe nothing is wrong with you.

Every day is one step closer to the precious truth; ervery day can teach you the wonder, if you’re willing to see those.

…[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss.

[I]sn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be...

I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, “Well, that’s pretty much...

Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in the New Lecture Hall. And when he was done, Professor...

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part...

It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.

Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate’s mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?’ she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting...

why she loves me I can get ,why I am not living without her–that’s wonder .

I shouldn’t wonder if you didn’t wonder much too much!

Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and...

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

It’s these little things, they can pull you underLive your life filled with joy and wonderI always knew this altogether thunderWas lost in our little lives

When you didn’t force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn’t catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn’t impale them and label them, like so...

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Sometimes you forget you’re famous. You wonder, ‘Why is that person staring at me?’

The ‘deep pause’ needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a ‘deep pause’ to be deeply wasteful.

When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; ” that business minded people...

What does it do?” you’re probably wondering. Well, I’ll tell you. What it does is makes you wonder: What does it do?

And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn’t real.

Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn’t really in the whistle, the longing is in you—for...

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and...

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them...

My feeling is that an observer needs to see four hundred and fifty stars to get that feeling of infinitude, and be swept away…and I didn’t make that number up arbitrarily, that’s the number of...

Your deeds are your monuments.

SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKYEarly summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky.Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice,...

For thousands of years, it had been nature–and its supposed creator–that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense...

The rock I’d seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I’d never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary New England pegmatite – big, coarse granite – and laid bare...

…the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open…

The most wonderful pleasure on earth is in saving treasures in heaven… The most wonderful treasure lies in the pleasure of doing so… Live life so well!

The word God can mean whatever you believe it to mean, for me it is the conscious stream of life from which we all come, and to which we can stayconnected throughout our lives as...

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little...

You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the...

Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn’t help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books...