01
“Its not a contest about whose days suck the most. The point is we all have to put up with the bad days.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
bad days
concept
02
“You don’t need your eyes to love, right? You just feel it inside you. That’s how it is in heaven. It’s just love, and no one forgets who they love.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Isabel Pullman
character
love
concept
03
“Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
August Pullman
character
worries
concept
04
“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
August Pullman
character
success
concept
05
“It’s not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. And the universe doesn’t. It takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can’t see...Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of all its birds.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Justin
character
love
ᐧ
care
concepts
06
“The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Mr. Browne
character
actions
ᐧ
memories
concepts
07
“It’s better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.”
R. J. Palacio
author
James Thurber
person
Wonder
book
Mr. Browne
character
questions
ᐧ
answers
concepts
08
“I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
August Pullman
character
09
“Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed. Why I love that line, that concept, is that it reminds me that we carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Mr. Tushman
character
kindness
ᐧ
choices
concepts
10
“A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we’ve done, and apply what we’ve learned from those things to the future. If we don’t examine the past, we don’t learn from it.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
the past
ᐧ
learning
concepts
11
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Mr. Tushman
character
strength
ᐧ
greatness
concepts
12
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Mr. Tushman
character
friendship
ᐧ
courage
ᐧ
kindness
ᐧ
character
concepts
13
“Some things you just can’t explain. You don’t even try. You don’t know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
communication
concept
14
“Learning who you are is what you are here to do.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Via Pullman
character
learning
ᐧ
being yourself
concepts
15
“Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
August Pullman
character
ordinary
concept
16
“But I really believe, and Daddy really believes, that there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Isabel Pullman
character
friendship
ᐧ
goodness
concepts
17
“When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
person
Wonder
book
Mr. Browne
character
kindness
ᐧ
choices
concepts
18
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Blaise Pascal
person
Wonder
book
Mr. Browne
character
kindness
ᐧ
words
concepts
19
“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Charlotte
character
friendship
concept
20
“It’s never too late to start over.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Julian Albans
character
forgiveness
ᐧ
beginning
concepts
21
“The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average — though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Mr. Tushman
character
friendship
ᐧ
time
ᐧ
success
concepts
22
“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Sappho
person
Wonder
book
Mr. Browne
character
beauty
ᐧ
goodness
concepts
23
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
R. J. Palacio
author
John Wesley
person
Wonder
book
Mr. Browne
character
goodness
concept
24
“Don’t try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that’s uncool.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Wonder
book
Amos Conti
character
appearances
ᐧ
popularity
concepts
25
“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams.”
R. J. Palacio
author
Joseph Merrick
person
Wonder
book
Justin
character
dreams
concept
26
“She wonders whether what comes next could ever live up to the expectations. She doesn’t know. You never can. She turns the page anyway.”
Emily Henry
author
Wonder
ᐧ
Book Lovers
books
expectations
concept
27
“She often remembered that building and wondered who owned it. Someone very kind she was sure for in front of every one of the many seats there had been a little carpet-eared puppy-sized dog-bed.”
Dodie Smith
author
Wonder
ᐧ
The Hundred and One Dalmatians
books
kindness
ᐧ
memories
ᐧ
questions
ᐧ
pets
ᐧ
being grateful
ᐧ
being thankful
concepts
28
Men themselves have wonderedWhat they see in me.They try so muchBut they can’t touchMy inner mystery.When I try to show themThey say they still can’t see.I say,It’s in the arch of my back,The sun of my smile,The ride of my breasts,The grace of my style.I’m a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That’s me.
Maya Angelou
author
Wonder
ᐧ
Phenomenal Woman
books
men
ᐧ
woman
concepts
29
“If someone were to tell a friend, ‘I want to see you tonight’, you would wonder what was meant by ‘you’. You would keep asking yourself, ‘Does “you” in this case mean “you” or “U”?’If ‘you’ means ‘U’ and ‘U’ is me, then that lady wants to see me tonight. And then you would wonder why, I tell you, Professor Sherman, ‘U’ is a bad name.”
William Pene du Bois
author
Professor William Waterman Sherman
person
Wonder
ᐧ
The Twenty-One Balloons
books
Mr. F
character
names
ᐧ
friends
ᐧ
asking
ᐧ
someone
ᐧ
bad
ᐧ
lady
concepts