Quotes About Wonder

Just knowing that there's somebody else out there - that what's happened on this planet has also happened in many other places - that might change our lives in a very subtle way, but it's interesting to know and worth looking for.

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

When I see someone interesting on the subway - the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons - my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going?

Even the genius asks questions.

Even the genius ask questions.

It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: 'there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress - what did I know - until now?

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

And I begin to wonder, the dreams I can't remember, when I wake in the morning, where in the world did they go?

Her eyes traveled over the row of Encyclopedia Thaumaturgica, and paused at the gap, one book wide, for volume Q. If Cook threw away volume Q, why is there a gap at all? Shouldn't P and R just be jammed up against each other?

Ohmygodthatisthecoolestthingeverarealpirateshipcanwegoseeitcanwecanwe

Fortunately, at that point Mumfrey

The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world.

Mää olen ahven. Mää olen hiilest tehty ahven… Mää ihmettelen kauhiast.

Do you know what the imagination is, Susan?" The child nodded sagely. "That's when you see things that aren't really there." "Well, not exactly," said Kris with a smile. "No -- to me the imagination is a place all by itself. A very wonderful country. You've heard of the British Nation and the French Nation?" Susan nodded again. "Well, this is the Imagination. And once you get there you can do almost anything you want.

Quien ve el mar siente miedo, pero también una atracción invencible, la ansiedad de conocer lo que esconde su interminable vastedad.

Me gusta estar en el mundo.

Van Gogh: "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

All the girls walk by dressed up for each otherAnd the boys do the boogie woogieOn the corner of the streetAnd the people passing by just stare in wild wonderAnd the inside jukebox roars just like thunder

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.

Some of us have looked up at the night sky and wondered about other worlds that might be kin to us, other hearths and homes that might welcome us, through which we would experience a different becoming. Some of us yearn for those connections waiting for us on other shores. We seek to feed within us the god of wonder, to open within ourselves dusty rooms we didn't know existed and let in the air and light of other worlds.

It's cool to think about stuff bigger than ourselves" -Chris

Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small.

I wonder if the explanation is even more complex than we imagine at present.