Quotes About Wonder

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

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles.

Yes. Happiness, anxiety, sadness, anger and disgust. It's none of those. So it might be . . . wonder.

Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.

By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accurate picture of the world we know and love.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Look at the shiny magic thing trying to kill us, isn't it awesome?

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

The next time you are faced with an insurmountable problem, I'd advise you to look into the heavens on a clear night.

I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about, Riding with the wind.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever—Jacques Yves Cousteau The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I thought to myself, not for the first time in this life, Everything is perfect; all those things that I always think are so bad really aren't bad at all. Then I noticed that out my window the clouds had parted, the clear night sky was suddenly visible, and the moon — a garish yellow disk against a dark wall — seemed to be looking at me funny.