Wonder Quotes

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

The sad thing about miracles is that they’re unique. They can’t be explained, or shared, or duplicated. And they absolutely cannot be captured and made to perform on demand. If that day ever came, our world would die for lack of wonder.

Imagination makes the world
and all the wonders in it.
The seed of every dream unfurls
as you with love begin it!

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.

...everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"
"I don't know. I don't think so."
"Then how do people recognize each other?"
"I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?

I think we're too young to be dating. I mean I don't see what the rush is." Summer says.
"Yeah, I agree," said August. "Which is kind of a shame, you know what with all those babes who keep throwing themselves at me and stuff?

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.