Quotes About Wonder

Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.

wondering what sort of person would live in a place like this,

So much of Valetto is negative space, I thought as I walked along, the conjuring of imaginary forms, but then you turn a corner and see the curled Cs of a dozen sleeping cats in the piazza, the clay-potted geraniums on the edges of stone stairs, the winter rooftop gardens, or the old man in a leather apron walking to the church every hour to ring the bronze bells, and you feel certain that this town of ten will be here forever.

He saw a world he had not seen before; a world made not for mastery but for living. Once seen it was a very simple thing to understand. The wonder was that he had been so blind.

The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.

54 Jesús pues la cogió de la mano y dijo en alta voz: Niña levántate. 55 Y de repente volvió su alma al cuerpo, y se levantó al instante. Y Jesús mandó que le diesen de comer. 56 Y quedaron sus padres llenos de asombro, a los cuales mandó que a nadie dijesen lo que había sucedido. 9

He is your God, the one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done mighty miracles that you yourself have seen.

One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.

Is there a child in the world who does not believe in magic?

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

donald justice: i often wonder about the others, where they are bound for on the voyage, what is the reason for their silence, was there some reason to go away?

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

And Life continues to be fascinating...

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.