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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back... Barbara De Angelis I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. Aleister Crowely The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowely Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. Aleister Crowely '' Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. '' Wolfgang Von Goethe '' One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. '' Dale Carnegie '' Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. '' Unknown '' There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. '' Charles Morgan '' Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it. '' Johann Wolfgang '' Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. '' Javan '' Books are a uniquely portable magic. '' Stephen King '' One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. '' Robert A. Heinlein '' Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. '' Tom Robbins '' That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. '' Charles de Lint '' Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. '' Tom Robbins '' Cats are magical...the more you pet them the longer you both live. '' Lokiandari '' 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 '' The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind! '' Lord Byron '' There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. '' Unknown '' The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. '' Eden Phillpotts '' The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. '' Blaine Lee ''When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay. '' Tom Robbins '' The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. '' Ben Okri '' Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. '' Ben Okri '' There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. '' Unknown '' This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. '' Thomas Dekker '' A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls. '' Terry Pratchett '' Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. '' Arthur C. Clarke '' Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. '' Francis Bacon '' To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. '' Vladimir Nabokov '' Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches. '' Logan Pearsall Smith '' There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits. '' Robert Southey '' The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. '' Stanley Kubrick '' I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. '' James Cameron '' There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. '' James Earl Jones '' He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder. '' Henry Wadsworth '' One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is always there. The more we can see the magic in one thing, a tiny flower, a mango, someone we love, then the more we are able to see the magic in everything and in everyone. Where does the mango stop and the sky begin? '' Joshua Kadison '' If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art. '' Starhawk '' Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection. '' Starhawk '' Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants. '' Tom Robbins '' In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. '' Godfrey Smith '' The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. '' Tom Peters ''The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? '' J B Priestley '' Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory. '' Dennis Gabor ''A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls. '' Terry Pratchett ''A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. '' Earl Nightingale '' Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. '' Jim Rohn '' There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject. '' J K Rowling '' Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps. '' Paulo Coelho '' I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova. '' Casey Dellacqua '' The jazz trombone is a magical experience particularly to hear and listen too. '' John Jensen ''Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. '' W Clement Stone '' Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. '' Arthur C Clarke ''One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. '' Dale Carnegie '' The real secret of magic lies in the performance. '' David Copperfield '' Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. '' Norman Vincent Peale ''The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. '' Martin Puryear ''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 ''The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. '' Stanley Kubrick '' It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. '' Sean Penn ''Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. '' Simone De Beauvoir '' If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds. '' Dr Wayne Dyer '' Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone. '' Alicia Witt '' Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures. '' Ron Taffel '' Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. '' John Quincy Adams '' Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. '' Lynn Abbey ''I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world. '' Tanith Lee '' It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic. '' Sherilyn Fenn '' Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. '' Bell Hooks '' When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing. '' Greg Rusedski '' Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. '' Plato '' There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that. '' Bill Kurtis '' There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. '' Ida Rentoul Outhwaite '' Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. '' Chuck Close '' Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. '' Aleister Crowley '' People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. '' Bruce Scheneier '' Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. '' Willa Cather '' I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. '' John Perry Barlow '' Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. '' Thomas Beecham '' A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing. '' Susanna Clarke '' Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. '' Arthur Schopenhauer '' Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire. '' Jimmy Hill '' The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. '' Eden Phillpotts '' A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. '' Caroline Gordon '' Giving 'Magic' the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Knan a horse. Devastation. Havoc. '' Jim Murray ''Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. '' Martha Graham ''I was on holiday and passed an amusement arcade where it was playing on the jukebox. There was a magic to it that made me want to be a part of the world it came from. '' Bob Harris '' Music is the strongest form of magic. '' Marilyn Manson ''Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. '' Jackie Kennedy ''Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. '' Daniel Burnham '' The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. '' Thomas J Peters '' Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays. '' Francis X Clines '' The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. '' Blaine Lee ''Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. '' Jose Ortega Y Gasset '' There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. '' Norman Vincent Peale ''I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. '' John Mortimer ''At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!) '' Mick McCarthy '' Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life. '' Gloria Vanderbilt ''And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. '' Roald Dahl '' The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. '' Marshall McLuhan ''The only difference between science and magic is consistency''