"Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force."

-- Marianne Williamson

#Magic Quotes #Midlife Quotes #Force Quotes

“The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory”
“I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.”
“I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.488, Delacorte Press
“I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ***** to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.”
“[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.”
“We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.”
“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

Source : L. Frank Baum (2007). “The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz - The Sea Fairies, Sky Island”, p.66, Lulu.com
“As you speed along the highway of life ... you might pause and consider. When everything's coming your way, maybe you're driving in the wrong lane.”

Source : Joseph Finder (2006). “Paranoia and Company Man”, p.243, Macmillan

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