#enchantment

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#disenchanted #enchantments #gives #love #miracles

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

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

#bed #different #enchantment #event #fall

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#first #habit #knowing #nature #neither

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#dim #enchantment #haze #mystery #pursuit

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#disenchantment #dreamers #i #like #mistook

The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#happiness #life #luck-peace #magic #passion

For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives -- to both, but perhaps especially to the woman -- a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love #miracle #love

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#enchantment #magic #magical #perspective #scale

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#inspirational #inspirational