Marveling Quotes

• Como ejemplo de lo inútiles que son estos filósofos para cualquier práctica de la vida está el propio Socrates, el único sabio, según el Oráculo de Delfos. Cada vez que intentaba hacer algo en público tenía que interrumpirlo en medio de la risa general. Mientras filosofaba sobre nubes e ideas, medía el pie de una pulga y se maravillaba ante el zumbido de un jején, no aprendía nada sobre los asuntos de la vida ordinaria.

  Desiderio Erasmo

  Life, Wise, Laughter

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• El hombre siempre se maravilla de lo que ha hecho estallar, nunca de lo que el universo ha unido, y ésta es su limitación.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Together, Universe

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• Debemos abrir los ojos para admirar a Dios que se esconde y al mismo tiempo se revela en las cosas y nos introduce en los dominios del misterio... debemos ser puros y sencillos como niños, capaces de admirar, de asombrarnos, de maravillarnos y de encantarnos ante los gestos divinos de amor y de cercanía de los que somos testigos.

  Pope John Paul II

  Fe, Niños, Inspiración

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• I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

  Bryan Adams

  Stars, Ideas, Mind

  "Bryan Adams Gets a Star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame". Agence France-Presse Article, nationalpost.com. March 23, 2011.

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• El Sabio de Toronto... pasó varias décadas maravillándose de las numerosas libertades creadas por una "aldea global" instantáneamente y sin esfuerzo accesible a todos. Las aldeas, a diferencia de las ciudades, siempre han estado gobernadas por el conformismo, el aislamiento, la vigilancia mezquina, el aburrimiento y los repetitivos cotilleos malintencionados sobre las mismas familias. Una descripción bastante precisa de la vulgaridad actual del espectáculo global.

  Guy Debord

  Cotilleo, Aburrimiento, Sabio

  "Comentarios sobre la sociedad del espectáculo". Libro de Guy Debord, 1988.

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• Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

  John Ortberg

  Christian, Jesus, Arguing

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• I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Sorry, Grief, Loss

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No deja de asombrarme que hombres y mujeres deambulen por la tierra maravillándose ante las montañas más altas, el océano más profundo, las arenas más blancas, las islas más exóticas, las aves del cielo y los peces del mar más intrigantes... y que, sin embargo, nunca se detengan a maravillarse de sí mismos y a darse cuenta de su infinito potencial como seres humanos.

  Matthew Kelly

  Océano, Hombres, Mar

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.16, BookBaby

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• As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

  Lewis Thomas

  Growing Up, Learning, Science

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• She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Hands, Ordinary

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• I just thought that a naked pregnant woman checking herself out would be so funny. I actually wish there was more of it. An actually, it was my idea to put it in, because I just remember being pregnant and just marveling at the hugeness of my body, like looking in the mirror from all angles. But that's something you do privately.

  Jennifer López

  Mirrors, Ideas, Wish

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracián

  Sweet, Taken, Smell

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• When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for “cookie.” Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z.

  Ji Lee

  Children, Fun, Block

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• From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

  Herman Melville

  Stars, Heart, Space

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.67

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• As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

  Marlo Thomas

  Commitment, Fighting, Doctors

  "What You Don’t Know About Cancer — Hope on the Horizon" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Sleep, Daylight

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). "Un lugar fino y privado: El último unicornio"

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• I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people had finished and published novels; it couldn’t be so hard, right?

  Heidi Julavits

  Book, People, Novel

  "How To Write Your First Book". Interview with Sandra Allen, www.buzzfeed.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Flotando en el vacío libre de gravedad me abrí paso por el costado de la nave. Escuchaba mi propia respiración. Estaba tan oscuro y me sentía tan ingrávido que tuve que buscar mis burbujas para estar seguro de hacia dónde iba. Nadé un poco hacia atrás, alejándome del barco y hacia el espacio exterior, y agité el brazo en el agua. Los fosforescentes aparecieron siguiendo mi movimiento como la cola de una estrella fugaz. Me dejé caer boca abajo y floté observando la suave tormenta de nieve, maravillado de que un mundo tan extraño existiera aquí todo el tiempo, justo bajo la superficie.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Estrellas, Oscuridad, Espacio

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). "Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents", p.208, Seal Press.

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• If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Winning, Simple

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