50 of The Best Magic Quotes

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1. “It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.” — Terry Pratchett

2. “Mentalism is the silent music of the mind; Magic is the orchestra of the unseen.” — Jon Finch

3. “Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.” — Drummond Money-Coutts

4. “Magic is liquid illusion, and illusions are frozen magic.” — Jon Finch

5. “Part of show business is magic. You don’t know how it happens.” — Sammy Davis, Jr.

6. “Mentalism is the dance of thoughts; magic is the ballet of the impossible.” — Jon Finch

7. “Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.” — Beau Taplin

8. “Magic is the poetry of impossibilities, each trick a stanza in the verse of wonder.” — Jon Finch

9. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl

10. “In the theater of life, magic is the script written in the language of the extraordinary.” — Jon Finch

11. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats

12. “Magic is the canvas of the uncharted; mentalism is the painting of the subconscious.” — Jon Finch

13. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

14. “Magic is the architect of dreams, building palaces in the air with the bricks of astonishment.” — Jon Finch

15. “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

16. “In mentalism, thoughts are the whispers of the universe; in magic, the universe is a stage for whispers.” — Jon Finch

17. “Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated… Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.” — Paulo Coelho

18. “Magic doesn’t require beauty,’ she said. ‘Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.” — Leigh Bardugo

19. “Magic is the brush that paints the unseen, the instrument that plays the silent chords of amazement.” — Jon Finch

20. “But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.” — Shel Silverstein

21. “Magic is at the core of myths.” — Colin Farrell

22. “Mentalism is the unspoken language of the soul; Magic is the literature of the impossible.” — Jon Finch

23. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” — J.K. Rowling

24. “You’ve got to know magic is still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.” — Charles de Lint

25. “Magic is the choreographer of awe, orchestrating dances of the unimaginable.” — Jon Finch

26. “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind, and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.” — Nora Roberts

27. “In the dictionary of the universe, magic is the synonym for the extraordinary.” — Jon Finch

28. “Children see magic because they look for it.” — Christopher Moore

29. “Each spell is a constellation in the galaxy of magic, forming patterns of amazement.” — Jon Finch

30. “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” — Ray Bradbury

31. “Magic is a melody reality seldom sings, a symphony of the surreal.” — Jon Finch

32. “Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet.” — Arthur C. Clarke

33. “Magic is the puzzle master of existence, creating enigmas that transcend understanding.” — Jon Finch

34. “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

35. “In the orchestra of existence, magic is the crescendo that shatters the silence of the ordinary.” — Jon Finch

36. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke

37. “Magic is the spice of life, sprinkling flavor into the soup of the mundane.” — Jon Finch

38. “Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.” — Stone Gossard

39. “Each magic trick is a drop in the ocean of mystery, creating ripples of astonishment.” — Jon Finch

40. “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.” — Walt Disney

41. “Magic is the garden where seeds of astonishment bloom into flowers of wonder.” — Jon Finch

42. “The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.” — Marc Andreessen

43. "The heart of magic is a manuscript, inscribed with the language of marvel.” — Jon Finch

44. “The world is its own magic.” — Shunryu Suzuki

45. “Magic is the prism through which the ordinary refracts into the extraordinary.” — Jon Finch

46. “I am sure there is magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett

47. “In the silence of reality, magic is the echo of the unimaginable.” — Jon Finch

48. “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow.” — Diane Duane

49. “Magic is the fabric of the unbelievable, woven with the thread of wonder.” — Jon Finch

50. “Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.” — Ben Okri

If we can't push ourselves to be better and live in a way that challenges us every day, then our lives don’t have meaning. It's up to each one of us to decide how much risk we will take personally and professionally. I hope these quotes inspire you as they do me!

Let the above magic quotes serve as reminders for taking risks today so that tomorrow might hold more success.