It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
—W. Somerset Maugham
I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.
—Judith McNaught in Something Wonderful
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.
—Eugene V. Debs
Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.
—Rudy Francisco
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
—M. C. Escher
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
—Willard Scott
How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.
—Edward Abbey
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
—Jacques Yves Cousteau
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
—Robert Frost
The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them.
—Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
—Alan Alda