"It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you."
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"Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart."
"O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!"
"She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream."
"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
"I wonder men dare trust themselves with men."
"If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad."
"Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation."
"Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made."
"The wonders of nature are endless."
"Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?"
"We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be."
"When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
"The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder."
"It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders."
"A good first impression can work wonders"
"I wonder what ants do on rainy days?"
"My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings."
"I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers."
"I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?"