Quotes About Wonder

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Because not believing is an exercise in futility, as the magic goes about its business whether ye think it exists or not. And if ye don't believe, then why even get out of bed in the morning? Or make plans for tomorrow? Or want, or hope, or dream, or even try? Magic is what powers life, Peg. Without it, we wouldn't be able to take our next breaths.

Why do they never volunteer a word? Tocohl wondered. Maggy volunteers information to the point of distraction. She smiled to herself at the thought. New definition of sapient: that which gives unsought advice.

Keep your sense of humor, and approach new experiences with a childlike sense of wonder. Allow your creativity to flourish and accept the mistakes that will inevitably come. Embrace unfamiliarity and give yourself the grace to find your footing.

Janet Tashjian

Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.

do more marveling and less whining.

How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn't know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

She says getting lost in a book is a magic trick, which means that I'm a wizard.

Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits for a long time and watches other children going down the slide, whose legs quiver just from imagining how it will feel to stand at the top of that silver swoop into the unknown?

Thank you, Dear Creator, for Life. Thank you for Dreams. Thank you for Ideas and Thoughts and Feelings. Most of all, thank you for choosing me to grow - just for today - and to know the Wonder of Your World and its many Possibilities.

What I am saying is that lovely, whimsical, and soulful things happen in a garden, leaving a gardener giddy.

Out beyond houses and mailboxes, roads and bridges, a person can see a realm that exists alongside this world in which we humans live.

What is it?' said Moomintroll. Discoveries were his very favourite thing (after mysterious paths, swimming and secrets, that is).

I saw this beautiful girl the other day. She had an ass behind her that seemed to go on for days. In fact, I'm still going on about her.

Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I'd love to see a concert in which "The Doors" opened up for "The Cars.

The glories of a new baby are beyond description.

Heaven is shaped like a cube, somewhere in the vicinity of 1,400 miles wide, long, and high. That's a really big cube.

He didn't care about the answers so much as the questions. He enjoyed science because it was an interesting way of being alive.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

We have a way of making the most extraordinary experience ordinary. We actually work at destroying our miracles. ...