Quotes About Wonder

I know very little, but I am curious about a good deal.

I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out the reason for and explanation of everything . . . To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable.

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.

Against the sky, she is exquisitely elsewhere.

I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

But something had already been set in motion, and I wonder and wonder how things would have been if I'd just let that moment pass, the one where our eyes met. If I had just taken Shakti's arm and moved off, letting the electrical jolt that passed between us fade off, letting the girl return to his side, letting fate head off in another direction entirely, where he would have kept his eyes fixed on the girl with the purse or on another girl entirely.

We looked at each other and smiled like we just discovered something wonderful, maybe kissing itself, something no one else ever figured out. It seemed like ours, a terrific secret.

The sky is only now turning morning pink. I have that leaving-early-on-a trip feeling, where you're tired but excited and you get to see what's going on in the hours when you're usually still asleep.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

Don't we all look up at the same stars?

I write because I know magic happens

Wherever you go, find your adventure by looking for the unknown - there you might find yourself.

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

Believe is the birth of all miracles.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.

The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life.

Look around and marvel at the amazing world that surrounds your everyday life.

Discover the beauty of life through the eyes of a child.

Stars are dull when they're compared to you and I

Magic is not doing the impossible. It's about doing what seems impossible.