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Quotes About Wonder

Less cannot imagine Delaware being a miracle to anyone.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
So when we do sit down in front of a TV screen, it will be for a specific purpose and with a specific hope, not just of entertainment or distraction but of wonder and exploration. When we do scroll through social media, it will be to have a chance to give thanks for our friends, enjoy their creative gifts, and pray for their needs, rather than just something to take our mind off our tedium.
~ Andy Crouch
Boredom is actually a crucial warning sign—as important in its own way as physical pain. It's a sign that our capacity for wonder and delight, contemplation and attention, real play and fruitful work, has been dangerously depleted.
~ Andy Crouch
Yes it is," says the monster.
~ Andy Griffiths
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
~ Andy Warhol
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
~ Andy Warhol
HaShem makes us all different, and we are to be who HaShem meant us to be. As it says in the writings, 'You fashioned my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother's womb. I thank You because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; Your works are wonders
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
For whatever the power of truth may be, literature's own special power has always lain in fiction. That wonder we construct. It is the invention that unbreaks the heart and brings us into hope and peace and love.
~ Angus Fletcher
And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think: How far, HOW FAR, we are willing to go to pretend we are not of the body at all.
~ Anita Shreve
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
~ Ann Brashares
He took her hand and they started walking toward the baggage claim. They didn't say anything to each other. They swung their held hands like little kids, like they believed anything could happen, like they might take off soaring into the air. All the things you wanted to happen could happen. Why not?
~ Ann Brashares
I like that you let yourself be surprised
~ Ann Brashares
Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be easy for us. Because they were lucky and we wanted to be lucky too. They had wonder, and we didn't have any. We looked for the magic, but we didn't fine it. We waited for the magic, but it didn't find us.
~ Ann Brashares
No one who reads can ever be bored
~ Ann Hood
To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
~ Ann Hood
What an interesting place, Richard
~ Ann M. Martin
Curiosity is straight fire for creativity. By exploring, you bring insights and inspiration to imagination.
~ Sam Harrison, Creative Zing!
Kids must coddle their excitements. Soon enough the normies have you surrounded. It's all barricades, bullhorns. Come out, come out with your wonder abated.
~ Sam Lipsyte
The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
~ Samuel Johnson
In nature there is nothing melancholy
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God, it's so stupid the way I see my life, see all my existence as if there's some magic out there waiting just for me.
~ Sandi Kahn Shelton
GOD works in mysterious ways
~ Sandra Brown