Quotes About Wonder

I guess when you live somewhere every day you forget just how wonderful it can be. Or maybe you forget just how good some of the other things in the world are, like great friends.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I write about fairies in fantasy and folklore because who wouldn't want to believe in magic and fairy tales.

Without Belief, there is No Magic. - Kailin Gow

Kailin Gow is an extraordinary writer I felt as if I was in the fairy world! I can't wait to read the rest of the series." - Reader Ridge Short

Words made physical were like words made magical. - Earthling (Red Genesis #2)

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Live your life as a lonely stranger. As a wanderer filled with awe and wonder. Leave everything as you found it. For none of it belongs to you. Let the events happen around you, knowing that none of them are happening TO You. And you will live an equanimous life.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

I can understand how you can feel very lucky about the kind of life you live but also intrigued and magnetized to a different life.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When I went into the forest I used to look for them.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

How can I explain this? Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above. Your pit, your ties, your fear. you are lifted, you slowly rise like a hot-air balloon, and all you see is the space and the endless possibilities for losing yourself in it.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Hayward Christian Beach was heard to inquire; "How many knuckles appear on a 'knucklehead'?

Rockets now evoke a slightly old-fashioned kind of wonder, because they stand for an obsolete version of technological prowess. In the scheme of history which has become the most popular version of the recent past, the Space Age counts as the final phase of the Age of Industry – its culmination, just before the paradigm changed and the Age of Information replaced steel with digits.

Todo le recibe como si le esperase desde siempre, y puede mirar a los perros y a los gatos frente a frente, lo cual nosotros no hacemos nunca. El niño pasa del sueño a la vigilia dentro de una misma palabra, sin ruptura, sin trauma, y va por la casa despertando a lo que siempre estuvo dormido, hasta que él llegó.

the lovable is not scarce- it is everywhere. Everything you touch is lovable. There is a hufe surplus, a thousand wonderful things to do, see, feel, taste and smell and a million wonderful people to respond to, talk to, do things for, and delight in, ideas to play with, skills to learn, pictures to paint, songs to sing, grass to mow, poems to write, food to cook and dishes to wash. Each of these is one more occasion to love, out of countless such.

Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?' I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.' 'That,' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot.