Magic Observation Quotes

#1. Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

Lysa TerKeurst

#2. My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

Viggo Mortensen

#3. It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

Paul Cezanne

#4. For 3,000 years the Chinese owned the concept of daxue, yet no Chinaman ever came of the idea - let alone succeeded - to elevate this word permanently into the English language. What to think of such cultural passivity?

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#5. I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.

Charlie Jane Anders

#6. The result of my not caring so much about what I say allows me to care more about how I say it. P. 4

Mindy Kaling

#7. If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Antonin Artaud

#8. The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.

Aristotle.

#9. Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle;
only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

Toba Beta

#11. You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?"
"Dangerous," said the hidden girl, without a second's hesitation.

Kirsten Miller

#12. They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

Neal Stephenson