I'm always seeing the world with magic eyes," he said. "I'm exploding with childish wonder.

as she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance

Children are the only people who accept a mood of wonderment, who are ready to welcome a perfect miracle at any hour of the day or night. Only a child can entertain an angel unawares, or to meet Sir Launcelot in shining armor on a moonlit road.

I am caught in a kind of wonder, I am still with joy.

Children wonder at the world. Parents wonder at their children’s wonder. In so doing, we are all together young.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person,
and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

When'er with soft serenity she smiled, Or caught the orient blush of quick surprise,
How sweetly mutable, how brightly wild, The liquid lustre darted from her eyes?

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

He turns to me. There’s a look on his face that makes him appear a decade younger. A look of wonder and discovery. I remember falling in love with that look.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She smiled her radiant goddess smile and began to laugh. Her omnipresent peals of mirth resonated through the forest, seeming to echo to the edges of the universe and back. She was getting her first glimpses of the world, seen through the eyes of a goddess; the first sweet tastes of a consciousness empowered beyond all human levels of comprehension, and her spirit was in exultant bliss.

wisdom begins in wonder

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.