Quotes About Wonder

Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he'd brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

Life exists to be a mystery.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.