The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
—Bertrand Russell
And who shall say — whatever disenchantment follows — that we ever forget magic, or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple tree, the singing, and the gold?
—Thomas Wolfe
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
—Benjamin Disraeli
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
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
—Ben Hecht
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
—Amy Lowell
Stop thinking this is all there is. . . . Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral. . . . Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel. . . . Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious . . . there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable.
—Mark Morford
Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.
—Donna Lynn Hope
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
—Black Elk
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke
Nature is a petrified magic city.
—Novalis
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
—Emma Goldman
Ninety percent of most magic consists of knowing one extra fact.
—Terry Pratchett
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
—Charles Eames
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
—Unknown