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Quotes About Wonder

In moments among my various agonies, I noticed the beauty that surrounded me, the wonder of things both small and large:
~ Cheryl Strayed
that I didn't have to be amazed by him anymore. There were so many other amazing things in this world. They opened up inside of me like a river. Like I didn't know I could take a breath and then I breathed. I laughed with the joy of it,
~ Cheryl Strayed
The sky didn't wonder where it was.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Everything but me seemed utterly certain of itself. The sky didn't wonder where it was.
~ Cheryl Strayed
It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The air came alive with the sound of the wind whipping the trees at times and at other times it was profoundly hushed by the endless silencing snow. Everything but me seemed utterly certain of itself. The sky didn't wonder where it was.
~ Cheryl Strayed
It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Reaching a maximum depth of more than 1,900 feet, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and among the deepest in the world.
~ Cheryl Strayed
There are so many amazing things in this world... I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I walked through the spiderwebs, feeling them like magic on my face.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Put yourself in the way of beauty.
~ Cheryl Strayed
That mystery is not the curse of our existence; it's the wonder. It's what people are talking about when they talk about the circle of life that we're all part of whether we sign up to be or not—the living, the dead, those being born right this moment, and the others who are fading out.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose.
~ Cheryl Strayed
mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.
~ Cheryl Strayed
He looked out at the dark of night seeking rumors of the moon.
~ Chet Williamson
Bedtime stories are a doorway to dreams.
~ Terri Guillemets
I get so excited over sunsets and rainbows etc, when you see them it's like you can shut out the real world and envelop yourself in a beauty that almost makes it feel like fantasy.
~ Mrs. Ron Harris
Clouds blaze brilliant colors in a sky on fire.
~ Terri Guillemets
It was now evening, and by the dim light we could just discern the savage countenances around us, gleaming with wild curiosity and wonder; the naked forms and tattooed limbs of brawny warriors, with here and there the slighter figures of young girls... Nothing can exceed the fierce gesticulation of these people when animated in conversation, and on this occasion they gave loose to all their natural vivacity, shouting and dancing about in a manner that well-night intimidated us.
~ Herman Melville, Typee
What golden spider warmed himself and spun This web that is the flesh upon your bones...
~ Mark Van Doren, 1932
I never get tired of the blue sky..
~ Vincent van Gogh, letter, 1889
If stars were notes upon a musical sky the night what a song of beauty!
~ Terri Guillemets
The night sky is a miracle of infinitude.
~ Terri Guillemets