These 44 Quotes Carry a Kind of Magic That Can Shift Your Whole Day
Some days, all it takes is one sentence to change everything.
A single, perfectly strung-together collection of words can land
in your mind and quietly rearrange the furniture.
It can dissolve a worry, put a challenge in perspective,
or simply remind you of the beauty that exists.
This is the subtle magic of a great thought.
It’s a small key that can unlock a different state of being.
What you’ll find here are whispers of that magic.
They are gentle nudges for your spirit. Let them in.
Read them slowly, and let the ones that resonate find a home in you.
They have a way of shifting the light in the room of your mind,
turning an ordinary day into something just a little more luminous.
Quotes
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
— Charles Dickens
“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.”
— Alice Morse Earle
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”
— Stephen Hawking
“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s about what you’re made of, not the circumstances.”
— Unknown
“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
— Pema Chödrön
“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”
— Maya Angelou
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
— John 1:5
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”
— Banksy
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“Just for now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness.”
— John O’Donohue
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
— Maya Angelou
“The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to fly.”
— Unknown
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
— Bruce Lee
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”
— Morihei Ueshiba
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
— Mother Teresa
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
— Rumi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
— Rumi
“How wild it was, to let it be.”
— Cheryl Strayed
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
— Walt Disney Company, Mulan
“What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”
— Unknown
“The stars are the street lights of eternity.”
— Unknown
“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
— Richard Wagner
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of tomorrow are nothing but desire.”
— Lucretius
“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”
— Richard Bach
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
— Alan Watts
“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
— Nelson Mandela
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”
— Stephen King
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
— Rumi
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
— Buddha
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
— Steve Maraboli
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live.”
— Rumi
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.”
— Ram Charan
“The day is yours to paint. Don’t let anyone else hold the brush.”
— Unknown
“The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.”
— Unknown
“The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.”
— Unknown
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
— Paulo Coelho
