Miracles
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Genius, Imagination, Life, Meaningful, Miracles, Personal
Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Author: A. E. HousmanTopics: minutes, Miracles, Suffer, Suffered, Sufferers, Suffering, Suffice, Times, Times of difficulty
Look not in my eyes, for fear
They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And love it and be lost like me.
Topics: Clear, Clear Thinking, Clear vision, Fear, Fear Less, Fear of God, Instructions, Instruments, Look, Looking, Lost, Lost opportunities, Miracles, Mirror
To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Constitution, Famous, Miracles
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Constitution, Example, Famous, Liberty, Miracles, States, Union, Wonder, World
Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Miracles
To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Famous, Miracles, Paragraphs, Pretty
Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
Author: Gad ElmalehTopics: Alive, Famous, Life, Miracles, Praying, Streets, Walked
From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Experience, Famous, Follow, Heart, Inspirational, Mind, Miracles, Yourself
From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Author: Tom HanksTopics: Famous, Live, Meaningful, Miracles, Moon, Walked, World
Baseball is a mirror of life, reflecting our triumphs and failures.
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Failure, Leadership, Leading, Leads, Miracles, Mirror, Refinement, reflecting, Reflection, Reform
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world – you’re insecure if you’re successful, you’re insecure if you’re not. A tightrope walk without a net. It’s a miracle I’m still standing!
Author: Kabir BediTopics: Famous, Insecure, Job Uncertainty, Miracles, Profession, Professional Risk, Rollercoaster, Successful, Unstable Employment
The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Enough, Famous, Life, Marvelous thing, Meaningful, Miracles, Story, Swallowing
A novel is a window into the human soul, a mirror in which we see ourselves reflected
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Miracles, Mirror, Novel, See, Seeds, Self-Progress, Self-Reflection, Self-Respect, Window
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Fools, Impostor, Meaningful, Miracles, Old, Preach
The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Creation, Existence, Faith, Famous, Greater, Itself, Life, Meaningful, Miracles, Tricks
In these undiscovered books on the shelf there are marvels, miracles!
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Famous, Marvels, Miracles, Shelf, Undiscovered
Inside these old forgotten books on shelves are wonders, miracles!
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Famous, Inside, Miracles, Shelves
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Miracles, Motivational, Mystery
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
Author: H. C. BaileyTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Miracles, Realists
The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.
Author: Gabrielle Bernstein
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Lack of faith, Love, Miracles, Paradox, Receiving
Each day when you wake up, say: “What miracles would you have me perform today?
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Miracles, Miraculous powers, Perform
A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Miracles, Moments, Perception
It’s time to let go, be guided and expect miracles.
Author: Gabrielle BernsteinTopics: Expect, Famous, Guided, Inspirational, Let go, Miracles, Time
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Earth, Famous, Feelings, Gratitude, Life, Living, Meaningful, Mindfulness, Miracles, Now, Peace, Positive, Present moment, walk, Water
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
Topics: Leadership, Leads, Miracles, Miraculous powers, Real-Life, Realistic, Spring, Sudden, Suffer, Suffering
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
Topics: Himself, Minority, Miracles, Reasoning, Rebel, Will, Will power, Willingness
Finally in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Enjoying, Falling In Love, Famous, Inspirational, Miracles, People, True Love
The world is full of wonder and magic. Don’t let cynicism rob you of experiencing life’s miracles.
Author: Gabriel ByrneTopics: Embracing, Encourage, Famous, Inspirational, Life's, Magic, Miracles, World
Believe in miracles and the power of positivity. Sometimes, the universe has surprises in store for us.
Author: Gabourey SidibeTopics: Life, Miracles, Motivational, Positivity, Power, Surprise, Universe, Unpredictable
People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There’s the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle
Author: ImanTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Miracles
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Miracles, Never
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Forward-looking, Forward-Thinking, Leads, Lesson, Letting go, Miracles, Miraculous powers, Mirror, Never, Never Ending, Never giving up
Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Dream, Famous, Good, Lovely, Miracles
I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.
Author: Gordon B. HinckleyTopics: Famous, Hope, Inspirational, Miracles, Witness
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
Author: Gordon B. HinckleyTopics: Famous, Forgiveness, Love, Miracles, Tolerance
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
Author: Colin PowellTopics: Always, Famous, Feelings, Focus, Focused, Miracles, Mirror, Review, Revolution, Win
Miracles are great, but they’re so damn unpredictable.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Miracles, Unpredictable
She would consider each day a miracle – which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Consider, Existences, Famous, Fragile, Happen, Miracles, Number, Unexpected
We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, Happen, Life, Meaningful, Miracles, Understand, Unexpected
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Action, Famous, Hang, Meaningful, Miracles, Unpredictable
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Famous, Happen, Incredible, Miracles
Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, Happen, Meaningful, Miracles
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Author: Helen KellerTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Miracles
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one’s bath.
Author: Pablo PicassoTopics: Everything, Famous, Meaningful, Miracles
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Event, Faith, Famous, Inspirational, Miracles
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Compassion, Famous, Hardness, Kindness, Miracles, Mistakes, Unkindness, Work
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Famous, Kindness, Meaningful, Miracles, Mistakes, Prefer, Work
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Famous, Happy, Meaningful, Miracles, Work
it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Green, Greenhouse effect, Human, Human behavior, Human experience, Mars, Miracles, Priceless, Value, Value of Imperfection
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see
Author: C. S. LewisTopics: Miracles, Same, Seekers, Small
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Author: BuddhaTopics: Clear, Flowers, Miracles, Seeing
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
Author: George EliotTopics: Faith, Famous, Jesus Christ, Miracles, Pain, Prayer
To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
Author: Matthew McConaugheyTopics: Child, Famous, Healthy, Meaningful, Miracles, World
I didn’t know, until reading A Course in Miracles, that a miracle is a reasonable thing to ask for. I didn’t know that a miracle is just a shift in perception.
Author: Marianne WilliamsonTopics: Course, Famous, Life, Miracles
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
Author: Marianne WilliamsonTopics: Famous, Human, Life, Love, Miracles
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.
Author: Audrey HepburnTopics: Happiness, Happy, Miracles
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Famous, Grasped, Meaningful, Miracles, Possible, Struggle
Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Miracles
Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.
Author: Terry PratchettTopics: Explain, Famous, Meaningful, Miracles
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Famous, Intelligent, Meaningful, Miracles, Natural, Phenomena, True
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Everybody, Everything, Everywhere, Famous, Life, Live, Living, Meaningful, Miracles, Positive
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Author: Abu BakrTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Mindset, Miracles, Mission
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything
Author: Abraham MaslowTopics: Ability, Acceptable, Famous, Feelings, Life, Magic, Meaningful, Mindset, Miracles
All that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel mother
Topics: Ability, Famous, Feelings, Life, Miracles, Mom, Motivation, Natural, Opinion, Passionate
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Author: Michael JordanTopics: Ability, Achievement, Acknowledgement, Ambition, Career, Challenge, Championship, Chance, Competition, Confidence, Courage, Effort, Encouragement, Establish, Facts, Failure, Feelings, Focus, Focused, Football, Footballer, Goals, Hard Time, Hard Work, Harmony, Improve, Improvement, Inspirational, Journey, Learning, Lesson, Life, Losing, Loss, Mind, Miracles, Opportunity, Pain, Passion, Performance, Player, Possibility, Problem, Proud, Sacrifice, Self Respect, Strength, Success, Successful, Thankful, Work
And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.
Author: Walt WhitmanTopics: Experiences, Famous, Life, Magic, Meaningful, Miracles, Philosophy, Poetry, Power, World