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  • Wonder Quote #1

    All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

    Unknown

  • Wonder Quote #2

    Always think and always dream. Wonder what’s around the next corner for yourself, and don’t be afraid to go there, but most of all Love. Loving yourself and the people around you is the easiest path through life. It will bring you around that corner, and places you’ve never been.

    Ron Baratono

  • Wonder Quote #3

    An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to the side of a church like a barnacle to a rock. I think of this house clamped to the side of Tinker Creek as an anchor-hold. It holds me at anchor to the rock bottom of the creek itself and keeps me steadied in the current, as a sea anchor does, facing the stream of light pouring down. It’s a good place to live; there’s a lot to think about. The creeks are an active mystery, fresh every minute. Theirs is the mystery of the continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. The mountains are a passive mystery, the oldest of them all. Theirs is the simple mystery of creation from nothing, of matter itself, anything at all, the given. Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.

    Annie Dillard

  • Wonder Quote #4

    An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

    John Piper

  • Wonder Quote #5

    And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.

    Jenny Han

  • Wonder Quote #6

    And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how it never, ever mattered to Daisy.

    R.J. Palacio

  • Wonder Quote #7

    And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved.

    What else is going on right this minute while ground water creeps under my feet? The galaxy is careening in a slow, muffled widening. If a million solar systems are born every hour, then surely hundreds burst into being as I shift my weight to the other elbow. The sun’s surface is now exploding; other stars implode and vanish, heavy and black, out of sight. Meteorites are arcing to earth invisibly all day long. On the planet, the winds are blowing: the polar easterlies, the westerlies, the northeast and southeast trades. Somewhere, someone under full sail is becalmed, in the horse latitudes, in the doldrums; in the northland, a trapper is maddened, crazed, by the eerie scent of the chinook, the sweater, a wind that can melt two feet of snow in a day. The pampero blows, and the tramontane, and the Boro, sirocco, levanter, mistral. Lick a finger; feel the now.

    Spring is seeping north, towards me and away from me, at sixteen miles a day. Along estuary banks of tidal rivers all over the world, snails in black clusters like currants are gliding up and down the stems of reed and sedge, migrating every moment with the dip and swing of tides. Behind me, Tinker Mountain is eroding one thousandth of an inch a year. The sharks I saw are roving up and down the coast. If the sharks cease roving, if they still their twist and rest for a moment, they die. They need new water pushed into their gills; they need dance. Somewhere east of me, on another continent, it is sunset, and starlings in breathtaking bands are winding high in the sky to their evening roost. The mantis egg cases are tied to the mock-orange hedge; within each case, within each egg, cells elongate, narrow, and split; cells bubble and curve inward, align, harden or hollow or stretch. And where are you now?

    Annie Dillard

  • Wonder Quote #8

    And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

    Mohsin Hamid

  • Wonder Quote #9

    And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

    Terry Pratchett

  • Wonder Quote #10

    Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.

    Marty Rubin

  • Wonder Quote #11

    As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; that business minded people can meet there easily! Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

    Israelmore Ayivor

  • Wonder Quote #12

    As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

    Charles Baudelaire

  • Wonder Quote #13

    As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Wonder Quote #14

    As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds.

    Rabbi Nachman de Bratslav

  • Wonder Quote #15

    As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder.

    Paul E. Miller

  • Wonder Quote #16

    At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

    Yann Martel

  • Wonder Quote #17

    At some point, one asks, Toward what end is my life lived? A great freedom comes from being able to answer that question. A sleeper can be decoyed out of bed by the sheer beauty of dawn on the open seas. Part of my job, as I see it, is to allow that to happen. Sleepers like me need at some point to rise and take their turn on morning watch for the sake of the planet, but also for their own sake, for the enrichment of their lives. From the deserts of Namibia to the razor-backed Himalayas, there are wonderful creatures that have roamed the Earth much longer than we, creatures that not only are worthy of our respect but could teach us about ourselves.

    Diane Ackerman

  • Wonder Quote #18

    At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder.

    G.K. Chesterton

  • Wonder Quote #19

    Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

    Mark Buchanan

  • Wonder Quote #20

    Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

    Thomas Aquinas

  • Wonder Quote #21

    Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

    Melina Marchetta

  • Wonder Quote #22

    because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

    Dean Koontz

  • Wonder Quote #23

    Before the NSA there was the Catholic Church. What is confessional if not a place to gather secrets? No wonder the church had all the power.

    Jarod Kintz

  • Wonder Quote #24

    Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment

    Munia Khan

  • Wonder Quote #25

    Being reveals itself in all its beauty, splendor, and mystery “to him who contemplates it reverently.” ... What's the most beautiful part of the world, the part that has the greatest dignity? It’s not really a part but a person – it’s every person. Personal being is the greatest wonder of the cosmos.

    Michael Gaitley

  • Wonder Quote #26

    Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

    Dave Eggers

  • Wonder Quote #27

    But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

    Jody Lynn Nye

  • Wonder Quote #28

    But if God is the flowers and the trees
    And the hills and the sun and the moonlight,
    Then I believe in him,
    Then I believe in him all the time,
    And my whole life is an oration and a mass,
    And a communion with my eyes and through my ears.

    Alberto Caeiro

  • Wonder Quote #29

    But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget.

    Zipha Keatley Snyder

  • Wonder Quote #30

    Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.

    Jazz Feylynn

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