Quotes About Wonder

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share. Every day brought an endless stream of new life.

there was something in your children that could bring out the child in yourself.

As Clementine walked back inside studying the photo, she wondered what sort of person Erika could have been, would have been, should have been, if she'd been given the privilege of an ordinary home.

just irrelevant background noise to him? Or did he not care enough even to wonder?

As Clementine walked back inside studying the photo, she wondered what sort of person Erika could have been, would have been, should have been, if she'd been given the privilege of an ordinary home. You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.

She'd never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.

It was like watching someone play the violin beautiffully. You couldn´t conceive how they did it.

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share.

by something off in the distance and was strangely, almost

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

What's the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life .

He didn't answer, but I wasn't bothered. I was flattered that we'd gotten to this stage already, that our minds could wander without apology. We passed through a long swath of fireflies, thousands of them flashing all round us, and it felt like soaring through stars.

On clear nights the stars pierce a million holes in the darkness.

I felt the baby roll beneath her taut skin. I had never felt that before, never known, honestly, that such a thing happened. It echoed against my palm for a long time after. It was like putting my hand to the surface of the ocean and being able to feel a fish beneath.

A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?' Tillie said. 'Good God,

Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don't even know I'm going.

La capacità di apprezzare le cose ha il potere di trasformare la banalità in qualcosa di bello.

Isn't it comforting to know that God knew each of us before He created us? He planned what each of us would look like, who our parents would be, if and who we would marry, and how many children we would have. Before we could know God, He cared for us. He hid each of us away as a treasure until He brought us to be. God says that He fashioned each of us with awe and wonder.

It's hard to believe in miracles until you've seen one happen. But once you've seen, well, life alters and you can never look

For all those who believe, expect a miracle.