Best magic & mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Magic of Believing

“Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.”

Mind Hands Magic Bottles Silk

Author:Elsa Peretti

“What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.”

“I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.”

“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”

Way Writing Mind Mean Soul Body Force Wish Magic Thousand Draws Letters Distance Silent Division Absent Pow Absent Friends

Author:Aaron Hill

“If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy... But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”

Ifs Want Love Mind Heart Persons Sometimes Stories Easy Space Effort Magic Illusion Bother Pins

Author:Javan

“A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.”

People World Needs Mind Firsts Ideas Light Romance Passion Courses Literature Interest Audience Pieces Magic Mystery Horror Shadow Dialogue Capture Seducing Light And Shadow

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”

Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel

“... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of the mind is mobilized for healing the body. It's not magic; it is as scientific as the appropriate use of antibiotics, for science encompasses everything that is true in nature.”

Mind Use Body Pain Healing Magic Instance Therapy Tension Injury Appropriate Treatment Diagnosis Syndromes Power Of The Mind Antibiotics Healing The Body

Author:John E. Sarno

“The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.”

Mind Kind Made Belief Magic Atheism Type Argument Positive Atheism Defense Reasoning Unconscious Contradiction Acceptable Absurdity Penetrate Auras Pseudo

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, "I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.”

“When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.”

People Needs Mind Body Action Black Magic Muscles Steel Resorts Will Power Chastity Vigor Chaste Black Magic

Author:Honore de Balzac

“There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never reaches noon. Under this spell one's mind is braced, one's spirit recreated; one is ready for any adventure, even if it only be the doing of the next distasteful task light-heartedly.”

Ifs Mind Light Beautiful Spirit Next Morning Magic Effects Adventure Ready Tasks Encouragement Enthusiasm Spells Noon Cheerfulness Distasteful Beautiful Morning

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.”

Ifs Mind Eye Turns Imagination Cities Fire Magic Europe Train Corners Feds Charming Spectacles Dublin

Book:Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

Source: Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

“Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.”

Mind Book Home Lost Lines Cities Magic Example Pages Intellectual Originals Green Discrimination Owners Copies Bookstores Markers Browsing

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.”

Mind Moving Pieces Magic Painting Illusion Surface Planes

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.”

Mind Teach Study Psychology Magic Areas Programming Mixing Implants

Author:Keith Barry

“All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.”

Way Mind Magic Addresses Subtle Good Work

Author:Duane Michals

“A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.”

Source: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: A case of hysteria, Three essays on sexuality, and other works

“A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.”

Ifs Mind Magic Fronts Cold Synopsis

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.”

“The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.”

Knows Way Mind Persons Feelings Running Voice Deals Known Magic Limits Capacity Fairs Weight Infinite Blow Speed Range Endurance Arrows

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“The world is a better place because of Margot. Let us remember and give thanks for Margot, her brilliant mind, her loving heart, her beautiful voice, her activism, her writings, her news reporting, her other works, her magic, her bright spirit.”

World Giving Writing Mind Heart Beautiful Remember Spirit Voice Magic News Activism Brilliant Thanks Better Place Paganism Brilliant Minds Beautiful Voice News Reporting

Author:Selena Fox

“The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'”

“I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.”

Mind Age Felt Magic Twenties Jazz Raised Looking Back Roaring Timer Jazz Age Roaring Twenties

Author:Hugh Hefner

“We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.”

Mind Soul Facts Body Would Be Impossible Magic Gains Mysticism

Author:Franz Bardon

“It is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have been equally trained and developed.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Soul Body Can Do Magic Universal Mysticism Mind Body And Soul

Author:Franz Bardon

“Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.”

Mind Doe States Inspiration Individual Memories Magic Personality Depends Development Degrees Perfection Insight Intuition Determined Maturity Purity Mysticism Individual Personality

Author:Franz Bardon

“The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.”

Years Mind Matter Moments Wish Clear Magic Gratitude Quiet Crucial New Year Joyful What Matters Astonishment New Year Wishes Shortness Shortness Of Life

Author:Martha Beck

“You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.”

“Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.”

Mind Magic Obstacles Accidents Open Mind Happy Accidents

Author:Matthew Bonifacio

“It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.”

“A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!”

“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

“Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.”

Mind States Happens Meditation Magic Pure Miracle Transformation Innocent Innocence Enlightened Awakened Childlike

Author:Rajneesh

“Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.”

Mind Soul Joy Magic Miracle Seeking Ease Stillness

Author:Melody Beattie

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”

Ifs Mind Stills Light Able Turns Heaven Water Powerful Magic Blood Rocks Red Gold Blue Green Heavy Invention Grass Faculty Yellow Grey Adjectives Heavy Things

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it . . . but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.”

Knows Mind Hands Together Stuff Behinds Principles Audience Magic Tricks Confused Intrigued Magic Tricks Sleight Of Hand

Author:Keith Barry

“For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.”

Mind Believe Stills Hours Alive Seeing Magic Blind Leaving Islands Slips Looking Back Radiant Poignant

Author:Hermann Hesse

“There are a couple of films that I've done, where I've had to get on a horse and wear a pair of tights, so that helped. But, nothing could have prepared me for the fun of wielding magic like Merlin does, especially in the perverted mind of Chris Chibnall.”

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Author:Joseph Fiennes

“One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.”

Mind Heart Feelings Reality Light Magic Mystery Glory Constant Photographer Theme Dedicated Preoccupation Enigma

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.”

Mind Heart Earth Magic Cry My Heart Tragic

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and when I started reading about outstanding yogis and people of exceeding spiritual power such as Ramana Maharshi, or Yogananda, they all had the ability to do what we would call - I don't know what you would even call it - psychic phenomenon, magic, transform objects, be able to perceive the future, the past and the present simultaneously.”

People Knows Mind Able Past Spiritual Reading Literature Ability Magic Objects Yoga Indian Perceive Phenomenon Psychics Outstanding Gita Yogi Spiritual Power Yoga Sutra

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“Usually, I think it's best to play the song for them once and have them mix it up on the spot, because when the logical mind gets too involved, I think it kills a lot of magic. I just think the subconscious mind is so much smarter, and unfortunately, people do not trust their subconscious. A lot of people just don't access to all of that, the secret genius that's inside of them. And it's so much easier to get it out of a musician if you don't give them a chance to overthink.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Mind Play Song Chance Secret Magic Genius Involved Easier Musician Access Spots Logical Smarter Subconscious Subconscious Mind

Author:Larkin Grimm

“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.”

World Mind Made Real Feelings Problem Form Desire Answers Technology Fantasy Magic Reader Offers Trapped

Author:Lev Grossman

“There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their world. Nothing visible or capable of explanation. In fact, I'd never seen a whale. When I first witnessed their terrible death agony, I couldn't get the picture of a whale being harpooned out of my mind. It was a hideous mind-blowing sight. That day I recognised a purpose on the journey of my life.”

World Mind Firsts Facts Purpose Motivation Nature Magic Journey Terrible Ocean Capable Sight Explanation Encounters Visible Agony Whales Hideous Of My Mind Mind Blowing

Author:Sue Arnold

“You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when the chef is not in the house? I feel cheated. I don't mind paying big money for food but if I go to Paul Bocuse's restaurant I want Paul in the house.”

Ifs Want Feels Mind Different Bigs House Walks Pay Magic Restaurants Pounds Chef Cheated

Author:Marco Pierre White

“Professional wrestling has moved so far to the athleticism side and people are overly indulging in the stunt monkeys, but that's why there are so many injuries all the time. You need to break open your soul, break open your mind, and remember that pro wrestling is magic.”

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Author:Matt Hardy

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