#wonder

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#mad-hatter #nonsense #nothing

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#ecology #reality #universe #wonder #wonder

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#wonder

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#wonder

When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#winnie-the-pooh #wonder

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri #mead #richelle #vampire-academy #wonder

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#philosophy #wonder #wonder

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#magic #perception #wonder #wonder

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmos #dna #sense-of-wonder #stars #wonder

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#wonder