Favorite Quotations ~  Magic, 2 Magic of Thinking Big

"A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself." ~ Laura Gilpin

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic. ~ Doris Lessing

Magic takes time. ~ Zulu Proverb

We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. ~ Jerry Garcia

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~ Thomas Szasz

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. ~ Anais Nin

Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical. ~ Jonas Salk

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap. ~ Bette Midler

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven. ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.~ Arthur C. Clarke

Magic has universal appeal. I don’t believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I’d love it to be real. ~ J.K. Rowling

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

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