I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man — the mystery, the power, the freedom.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.

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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed… Magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.