Wonder Quotes

The miracle of this moment is a glorious time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is sacred gift.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without challenges, we fail to wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We wonder with our thoughts.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.

~ Mandy Hale

Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.

~ T.f. Hodge

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.

~ Jodi Picoult

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

~ Victoria Moran

Amidst the dim & desolate backdrop that was my world, a seed of hope bloomed into a garden of joyous wonder.

~ Trevor Driggers

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don’t sleep like eyes. Those who live by the sea examine the driftwood and glass balls that float from foreign ships. They let scores of invisible imps loose out of found bottles. In a scoop of salt water, they revive the dead blobs that have been beached in storms and tides: fins, whiskers, and gills unfold; mouths, eyes, and colors bloom and spread. Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity.

~ Maxine Hong Kingston

This is a feeling that you had, Quentin,' she said. 'Once, a very long time ago. A rare one. This is how you felt when you were eight years old, and you opened one of the Fillory books for the first time, and you felt awe and joy and hope and longing all at once. You felt them very strongly, Quentin. You dreamed of Fillory then, with a power and an innocence that not many ever experience. That's where all this began for you. You wanted the world to be better than it was.

~ Lev Grossman

Whether we are at Cafe Gratitude or Carl’s Jr, whether we are in a cathedral or in a nightclub, whether we are inside of a mosque or on the metro, every single moment is a sacred moment. A moment far too important for us to miss. When we miss the people and the experiences and the feelings of our lives, we miss God. We don’t get to know the joy of seeing God show up in the world. More profoundly, we don’t get to participate in the wonder of God showing up in the world.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

You are a gift, so open yourself everyday to see the beauty with love, wonder and feel the joy.

~ Debasish Mridha

A joyful life,reaching out to people from all walks of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

~ Amit Kalantri

When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is terrible, or a naïve optimist who says the world is wonderful and turns a blind eye. [Jack] Gilbert takes this middle way, and I think it’s a far better way: he says the world is terrible and wonderful, and your obligation is to joy. . . . A real, mature, sincere joy—not a cheaply earned, ignorant joy. He’s not talking about building a fortress of pleasure against the assault of the world. He’s talking about the miraculousness of moments of wonder and how it seems to be worth it, after all.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Each day is filled with beautiful splendid.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One thing that creates difference between pilgrims of life as they journey along the various paths of life is the head. It makes some fall, others rest and some pursue to the farther.The reason for the difference is not the size, shape, hair color or the style of the head but what is within the head, what fills the mind, what enters the ears; what the eyes look and see, what the ears hear and listen to; make some champions of life and others wanders of life.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

One thing that creates difference between pilgrims of life as they journey along the various paths of life is their head. It makes some fall, others rest and some pursue to the farther.The reason for the difference is not the size, shape, hair color or the style of their head but what is within their head, what fills their mind, what enters their ears; what their eyes look and see, what their ears hear and listen to; make some champions of life and others wanders of life.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Nature has created countless number of wonders, we got a long way to go as man have created only seven wonders.

~ Amit Kalantri

The wonder of the womb is the birth of a child.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.

~ Marty Rubin

In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and went on the warm wind, the leaves dancing, the clouds flying…the child was not observing; he was at rest in the very center of the universe, a part of things, unaware of endings and beginning, still in unison with the primordial nature of creation, letting all light and phenomena pour through.

~ Peter Matthiessen

When I was 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

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

Sometimes I'll pick up the heart of the jungle fossil on my bookshelf, or pull out my old field notebooks from my desk drawer, warped by Amazonian rains and the river's steam, the scent of the jungle still on their pages. I do this to remind myself that fiction does not have a monopoly on the unbelievable.

~ Andrés Ruzo

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Imagine you are in a classroom and they hand you a test with many interesting multiple choice questions, until you get to “Can you just explain what exactly you believe how the Universe started?” & here are the options. a) The Big Bang b) It’s always been therec) God! or Godsd) A bowl of cherries e) I don’t know…. If you choose (a) then what or who & why caused it? & the test continues…..If you choose (b) that would be my choice. If you choose (c) then who or what created God or Gods? And where do they come from? And if you think they have always been there, the same thing could be said about the universe. If you choose (d) It doesn’t make sense, it is odd, an anomaly, not supposed to be etc :) if you choose (e) then you are being honest. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing. You can make “assumptions” or “pretending” that you know or a book (bible) “knows” or “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 the test (life) continues with more wonderful questions and experiences :)

~ Pablo

It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To wonder is to recreate a sacred self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To live is to wonder.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life.

~ Gladys M. Hunt

When I hear that people live by the book, I always wonder which one.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

If God gives you a seed, He expects you to plant it;if He plants it for you, He expects you to water it; if He waters it for you, He expects you to prune it; if He prunes and keeps it for you, He expects you to harvest it; if He harvest it for you, He expects you to store it; if He stores it for you,He expects you to keep it safe from getting rotten and if He keeps it from getting rotten for you, He expects you to account for the seed.Yes!Life is all about purposefully fulfilling a purpose. We are expected to be doing something at each moment in our life or we live without purposefully living.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Life is a fragile and awesome gift.

~ Steve Goodier

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

~ Nicholas Sparks

Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded by infatuation with fatuous models, conspire in the deception. They make serious tasks seem dull and hard, and frivolous ones exciting and easy. Schools generally fial to teach how exciting, how mesmerizingly beautiful science or mathematics can be; they teach the routine of literature or history rather than the adventure.

~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Wondering is illusion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita