I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.

She couldn’t live in denial of her own humanity.

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.

The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold…

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller’s life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller’s most precious gift...

God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I...

I never really grew up until I had kids.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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

It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

May you see the world with wonder. And may you imagine only good things.

That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held...

There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE...

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

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I’ve decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

tells” you but I just don’t buy that. The beauty of it is that you are here today & you can be thankful & enjoy all the life that you have ahead of you. And...

enlightenment tree,” and I watched the rising of the morning star and came away no wiser than before. But later I wondered if the Tibetan monks were aware that the Bodhi tree was murmuring with...

There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective.

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...

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don’t look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After...

Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.They’re things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from...

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

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.

I’ve often wondered what makes a relationship last. I guess the best answer is it’s the one right after the next to the last one.

If you find semen in your beer, you’ll no longer have to wonder why I no longer have an erection. Love touches us all, like I touch myself.

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...

People and events of wonder and magic are the lifeblood of the world.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class – a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public’s masters. No wonder the public...

Don’t paint a nasty picture of your exes. We’ll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

A man who needs the unusual to make him “wonder” shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in...

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

When I lie back and close my eyes, this farthest lip of beach right next to the end of the ocean feels like being up close to an enormous breathing being, the bass drum surf...

Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world.Todo el mundo merece una ovación de pie porque todos hemos vencido al mundo.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

The moonlight shines and billows; the broken clouds scud above the trees. Leaves fly everywhere. But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly...

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

I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed...

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the...

Rarely do wonder tales end unhappily. They triumph over death. The tale begins with “Once upon a time” or “Once there was” and never really ends when it ends. The ending is actually the beginning....

I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.

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

To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the...

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