Quotes about Wonder
When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.
— Anne Lamott
When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!
— Anne Lamott
Do we play anymore, step away from tasks, duties, and habits with curiosity? Tread carefully: if you are not vigilant, this may lead to wonder, which is joy, which every fear in you knows will lead to job failure and lost revenue.
— Anne Lamott
It stops and gasps at beauty and is bathed in it. And sometimes it begins to weep.
— Anne Lamott
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
— Wendell Berry
Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life
— Kathie Lee Gifford
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
— John Keats
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
— John Keats
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
— Elizabeth George
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
— Ashley Montagu
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
— Audrey Hepburn