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If you believe in magic, you will find it.
There is magic everywhere in life. However, only those who truly look for it with enough hope will ever see it and be able to feel it.
Do you believe in magic? Yes? That's awesome! No? Well, look around for yourself. Breathe in slow and observe everything closely. The beautiful sun, the ever-changing colors of the sky, and the happiness on someone's face all prove that there is magic where you believe it to be.
Just like magic, we have gathered the best magic quotes right here! Magic quotes are any quotes referencing the mystery of the world of magic. If you like these magic quotes, you could also check out these sparkle quotes and life is what you make of it quotes to keep on believing.
Keep believing in magic with this list of the greatest magic quotes. "Books are a uniquely portable magic" by Stephen King is one such example.
1. "I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."
- J.K. Rowling.
2. "And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning."
- Dar Williams.
3. "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
- J. B. Priestley.
4. "There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond."
- James Earl Jones.
5. "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.
6. "Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't believe in."
- Jim Butcher.
7. "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams.
8. "Nature is a petrified magic city."
- Novalis.
9. "Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
- Nora Roberts.
10. "Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."
- Roger Bacon.
11. "Books are a uniquely portable magic."
- Stephen King.
12. "The world is its own magic."
- Shunryu Suzuki.
13. "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
14. "Magic, like technology, is a tool."
- Mercedes Lackey.
15. "It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
- Terry Pratchett.
16. "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Bertrand Russell.
17. "I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers."
- Sir Thomas Browne.
18. "People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music."
- Paul Simon.
19. "Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?"
- Unknown*.
20. "When magic creates man it may aspire to control him."
- R. Castleton.
21. "The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
- W.B. Yeats.
22. "What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me."
- Laura Esquivel.
23. "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion."
- Javan.
24. "The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors."
- James Cameron.
25. "The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpotts.
26. "Genius is another word for magic."
- Margot Fonteyn.
These quotes will feel like magic as you read them. Here, we have collected Disney quotes about magic, magic quotes from books, and more that will leave you with a magical feel. There is just something about these magic quotes!
27. "If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water."
- J.B.S. Haldane.
28. "Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can."
- Stone Gossard.
29. "Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef."
- Tom Robbins.
30. "It is a strange paradox that a magician pretends to control the destinies of men, but cannot control his own."
- James Ellis.
31. "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."
- J.K. Rowling.
32. "Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible."
- Carol Moseley Braun.
33. "I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
- Francis Ford Coppola.
34. "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.
35. "Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself."
- Rosemary Guiley.
36. "Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail."
- Michael Scott.
37. "Magic is anti physics, so it can't really exist. But it shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic."
- Koji Nakanishi.
38. "Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated… Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible."
- Paulo Coelho.
39. "The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!"
- Lord Byron.
40. "By learning and magic, a saint may outwit the devil."
- Pope Sylvester II.
41. "I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers."
- Brian Selznick.
42. "There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out."
- Lou Reed.
43. "I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers, do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you."
- Roy Orbison.
44. "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
- Tom Robbins.
45. "One man's magic is another man's engineering."
- Robert A. Heinlein.
46. "Action has magic, grace, and power in it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
47. "Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic."
- Albert Einstein.
48. "Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it."
- Beau Taplin.
49. "The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
- Blaine Lee.
50. "Imagination is the true magic carpet."
- Norman Vincent Peale.
51. "... disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business..."
- Tom Robbins.
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52. "Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
- Wayne Dyer.
53. "Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."
54. "Effective magic is transcendent nature."
- George Eliot.
55. "Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back."
- Peter S. Beagle.
56. "I believe life is destiny, and really captures the magic of life and the same for the magic in the disaster."
- Meital Dohan.
57. "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage."
- Ronald L. Rivest.
58. "I always write ‘Magic Potion’ on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical. I make spells in the morning when I put them on."
- Alexa Chung.
59. "Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
- Ben Okri.
60. "Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
- Henry A. Kissinger.
61. "The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
- Ray Bradbury, 'Fahrenheit 451.'
62. "Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost."
- Morgan Rhodes.
63. "If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future."
- Danielle Steel.
64. "Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible."
- Carol Moseley Braun.
65. "True magic is the art and science of changing states of mind at will."
- Douglas Monroe.
66. "The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places."
- Roald Dahl.
67. "The real name for 'science' is magic."
- Harlan Ellison.
68. "Part of show business is magic. You don’t know how it happens."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
69. "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.
70. "A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
71. "She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."
- Charles Bukowski.
72. "Music is the strongest form of magic."
- Marilyn Manson.
73. "Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own."
- Philip Treacy.
74. "I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life."
- Penelope Cruz.
75. "There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden."
- Gene Wolfe.
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76. "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder."
- Charles Morgan.
77. "This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
- Thomas Carlyle.
78. "'M' is for magic. All the letters are if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises…"
- Neil Gaiman.
79. "When I'm with you (Oh, it's magic) (Oh oh it's magic) To know the magic. You know it's true. I gotta hold on you."
- The Cars, 'Magic'.
80. "Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply."
- Peter J. Carroll.
81. "Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy."
- Walt Disney.
82. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke.
83. "Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
- Teller.
84. "Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action."
- Dorothy Morrison.
85. "Children see magic because they look for it."
- Christopher Moore.
86. "We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life."
- D. H. Lawrence.
87. "Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend."
- Alan Dean Foster.
88. "Magic is at the core of myths."
- Colin Farrell.
89. "Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft, its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection."
- Starhawk.
90. "There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen."
- Sidney Sheldon.
91. "Magic's just science that we don't understand yet."
- Arthur C. Clarke.
92. "Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."
- Roald Dahl.
93. "Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?"
- Jon Bon Jovi.
94. "Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth."
- Scott Dixon.
95. "Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore."
- Neil Gaiman.
96. "Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you."
- Roald Dahl.
97. "Call it magic
Call it true
Call it magic
When I'm with you."
- Coldplay, 'Magic'.
98. "I think hope and magic are probably connected."
99. "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.
100. "Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action."
- Dorothy Morrison.
Here's one of our favorite Christmastime magic quotes.
101. "Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more."
- Dr. Seuss.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for Magic quotes, you may want to look at these bucket list quotes and good vibes quotes too!
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We try our very best, but cannot guarantee perfection. We will always aim to give you accurate information at the date of publication - however, information does change, so it’s important you do your own research, double-check and make the decision that is right for your family.
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