Quotes About Wonder

If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

I do like the world quite a lot.

I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.

You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life.

I never imagined the unknown could be so beautiful.

We are perpetually invited to participate more consciously in the dep motion of faith, learning to wonder in a larger frame and awakening to bigger questions and larger dreams" p49

Books are like paper windows into other worlds, aren't they, Uncle Stephen?" she asked

A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

Stella wondered how silence could be so loud.

I wondered if I were blown to Oz with my dog, what would we ask the wizard for? Hmmm. Brains? I've got plenty. Courage? Butterscotch is scared of nothing! A heart? We've got lots of heart, me and my pup. So what would I ask for? I'd like to sing like the Cowardly Lion and dance like the Tin Man. Neither one of them did those things very well, but that would be good enough for me.

I wanted to go and stand inside a blossoming fruit tree, a cherry, and look up, into it, and see the bright ganglia of blue sky, and the many gathered skirts of the multiple blooms

As a child, he'd peered at the camera, as if trying to see into it, to its engineering

as he soars from the precipice edge, dreamy.

The other dreams inside a constellation

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing....

We don't need to have a birthmark prophetically positioned in a sign on our third rib to tell us what the Bible has already told us: We are intricately, beautifully, and wonderfully made.

The worse the mess, the more I get to wonder.

Sheila Sweeny Higginson

Magic Sandra's seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.