Quotes About Wonder

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?"... "No." "Welt, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?

What makes music...magic?

I believe that there's more to life than what we see.

Your being is as mysterious now as it was from the moment you were born.

I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I wondered just what that smell was. In the end I decided it was the smell of human thought embedded in paper.

Perhaps spirituality is another word for curiosity.

Would I want to know the ending to my own story? No. I want the adventure that comes with finding out.

Heather Vogel Frederick

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

When we open our eyes to the little miraculous events all around us, life becomes a story of many little resurrections, one after the next.

rainbows and starfish.

Story is the best magic there is.

Parent time is like fairy time but real. It is magic without pixie dust and spells. It defies physics without bending the laws of time and space.

We have this perfect love story that feels like a fairy tale and must be because how else to explain something so magical?

Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.

My God...it can think.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail

watching the world walk by in its curious shoes