Quotes About Wonder

Men. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it's not what you think. When we meet, we make … magic.

You know, as a child I thought somebody came and took the world away in the night and then came back and unrolled it all again the following morning.

And why not? The world made miracles like this every moment of every day: egg into chick, seed into flower, maggot into fly. Now man into fox? was that possible? Oh yes, said the House of the World. Yes, and yes, and always yes-

humans. "How did they get here? How could a train come to be lost in the middle of the lake all these years?" The tall man gazed out over the calm

I knew it. We've expired and gone to Disneyland.

Having a ten-year-old daughter can be like living with a fairy. Something magical.

Man lives and evolves by 'eating' significance, as a child eats food. The deeper his sense of wonder, the wider his curiosity, the stronger his vitality becomes, and the more powerful his grip on his own existence.

Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.

She watches the people through the sooted panes. They walk slower than they do when she reports to work and when she leaves work, and differently still from weekend strolling. They are the tin men and rag dolls who wake after hours in the toy store.

Do not doubt you inspire with every breath, that every breath is a marvel of engineering.

She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the starts made succulent and ripe after her time below.

Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. ~ Lady Norcroft

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

T[his isn't just "another day, another dollar." It's more like "another day, another miracle." (213)

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

How beautiful the world could be!

Come potrebbe essere bello il mondo!

Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...

Some of us looked in awed wonder at that massive horse, the gift for Minerva, the never-wed, which was to be our destruction.

There they were," she went on, "the stars. And he asked himself, my great-grandfather — that boy: 'What are they? Why are they? And who am I?' as one does, sitting alone, with no one to talk to, looking at the stars.

Yes. When I want to fill my heart with His love, I open my eyes to the creations of His hand, especially the ones that seem outrageously and uselessly beautiful--sunsets, sunrises, ice crystals, patterns in drying mud, golden cottonwood leaves against red rock cliffs, the melancholy sound of the first cricket in August, moss-covered rocks in a mountain stream, the way a baby laughs before she can do useful things such as talking or walking.