Quotes About Wonder

You never can tell with bees.

The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh

As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.

When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast," said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.

No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes. It's flying from somewhere As fast as it can, I couldn't keep up with it, Not if I ran. But if I stopped holding The string of my kite, It would blow with the wind For a day and a night. And then when I found it, Wherever it blew, I should know that the wind Had been going there too. So then I could tell them Where the wind goes... But where the wind comes from Nobody knows.

Let's look for dragons, I said to Pooh. Yes, let's, said Pooh to Me. We crossed the river and found a few Yes, those are dragons all right, said Pooh. As soon as I saw their beaks I knew. That's what they are, said Pooh, said he. That's what they are, said Pooh.

Non apibus dubitandem est. (You never can tell with bees.) ~ Winnie ille Pu

Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being somebody else

Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!

There, just inside the gates, was Mary. He was only six, but even then he knew that never would he see again anything so beautiful. She was five; but there was something in her manner of holding herself and the imperious tilt of her head which made her seem almost five-and-a-half. [From John Penquarto A Tale of Literary Life in London

A party for Me?" thought Pooh to himself. " How grand!" And he began to wonder if all the other ani- mals would know that it was a special Pooh Party, and if Christopher Robin had told them about The Floating Bear and The Brain 0/ Pooh and all the wonderful ships he had invented and sailed on, and he began to think how awful it would be if everybody had forgotten 149

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

And yet all things, even strange and wondrous ones, lose their luster with time. They always do.

I had an amazing childhood.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

See to it that you stand truly alive in the wonderful Creation of your God!

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

The Universe said, 'Let me show your soul something beautiful.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.