#magic

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

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If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#magick #equality

The magic of creation has always fascinated me. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#creation #fascinated #magic #me

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#elements #i #i think #ideal #magic

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. ↗

— David Blaine

#create #hand #i #idea #illusion

We had a blast at my magical birthday party. There were midgets, fairies, glass slippers, and I actually got to ride in a pumpkin. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #magical #funny

The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles. ↗

— Bill Bowerman

#man #miles

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #magic #man #mankind #sanity

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#cast #failed #force #looked #magic

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#close #half #hall #house #i