Quotes About Wonder

Did you see the comet about half a year ago?" she asked. "The one that looked like an extra moon in the sky?

So the first thing is to question or ponder or wonder about something. The second is to create or invent a solution or a new idea. The third is to"—she paused, trying to summarize the discussion we had just had—"evaluate and assess whether it's a good idea.

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

There she lays,' he cried. 'Oh there she lays! Ain't she the loveliest thing you ever saw?' 'She is, too,' said Stephen, for even to his profound ignorance she stood out among the common workaday vessels like a thoroughbred in a troop of cart-horses.

Patrick Skene Catling

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

I don't care. Cause when you see a scrap of pretty in this world, you gotta stop and give it a little respect.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

You can go anywhere in books

To live on the prairie is to daydream. It is the only conceivable response to such immensity. It is when we are smallest that our daydreams come quickest.

Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?

The things you people can do now!" Unlikely Worlds said. "The stories you make!

I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness.

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

made notes on my progress through the mountains, which had thrilled me.

Pimsa," Héctor said, passing the industrial park. "What's that?

You and this creation are incredible whether you understand that or not. You are wonderful beyond imagination. Just because you make horrendous choices does not mean you deserve less respect for what you inherently are--the pinnacle of my creation and the center of my affection. -God in The Shack

Johanna bent her head far back to look up into the leafy canopy and the rainy sky. There was a cautious wonder on her face. She said something in Kiowa in a low voice. So much water, such giant trees, each possessing a spirit. Drops like jewels cascaded from their spidery hands.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.