from my Commonplace Book to yours...
a collection of quotes for a M A G I C A L ♥ L I F E
May these words inspire and encourage you and may your heart be filled to the brim with beauty.
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The nicest things in life are often the simplest everyday things. Fresh bread, a wildflower posy, washing hung on the line and harvesting and preserving from our garden brings me contentment and joy. There is nothing more comforting to place on the table for family than a fresh loaf of sourdough bread and some local butter.
~ Remembering the Old Ways ~
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.
~ Roger Scruton ~
Beauty reminds us that we are more than mere matter and that we long for meaning from outside ourselves and that is why modernity hates it.
~ Dean Abbott ~
Never let anyone tell you magic doesn't exist or that fairies aren't real. It isn't cynicism that will change the world. Do your best to believe in yourself, and even if you don't, keep trying to and never give up. If all else fails, use your imagination and pretend.
~ Susan Branch ~
Each day I stop and thank the wildflowers, the world for turning, the stories and books, the bees and the honeysuckle. The tree. The tadpole. And just like that, I am a little happier.
~ Paola Merrill ~
Romanticize your life. A simple but meaningful life. True, but full of dreams. Natural, but handmade. Real, but full of magic.
~ Indoora World ~
Remember your magic. Your bones vibrate with wisdom. Your heart knows love and compassion. Your intuition always knows right from wrong. Your story is waiting to be told. Your voice needs to be heard by others. Your friendship changes lives. Your strength is an inspiration. Your soul knows the way. Remember your magic.
~ Nabalo ~
Beauty is quietly woven through our days. Everywhere there is tenderness, care, and kindness, there is beauty.
~ John O'Donohue ~
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger after them.
~ George Eliot ~
Be solar lights - coming to light as darkness falls in ordinary places, casting comfort and cheer to ward off fear and to remind those to see that light - the light of home. Twinkle brightly, friends. The world needs you.
~ Lancia Smith ~
These are the small graces, the little moments when the miracles come. These are the small graces, small graces leading me to the larger ones.
~ Bob Bennet ~
A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.
~ Albert Einstein ~
It is the most ordinary, yet sacred moments that create the thread with which we weave together a lifetime of days, savouring all of them.
~ Whole Woven Home ~
Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight.
~ Maira Kalman ~
Of course, I believe in magic...I can see it on the pages of a book, in the yellow and porous paper of a love letter, in the citrus aroma of the orange tea and in the steam coming out of a handmade teapot.
~ Indoora World ~
Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we just ignore this, we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.
~ Roger Scruton ~
Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.
~ Tasha Tudor ~
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not ever give anyone the responsibility of your life.
~ Mary Oliver ~
I can't get enough of romanticism. The concept of turning simply forgettable moments into little bits of sweetness that you savour on your tongue like caramel. How much slower the days turn and the seasons stretch into love letters that you slice open each morning and tuck into your favorite novel before bed. You start to realize how much more you begin to enjoy living. And how much less you depend on emotional highs or holidays to feel like you're breathing more clearly again. You start to notice how lovely the sun looks as it spills onto your floors, how it makes the steam of your coffee swirl and dance between your fingers. You begin to slow down on your walks to anywhere instead of fighting to reach the end. Sunsets, meals you prepare, rain showers, getting ready and unready for the day, clouds that drip down between the hills, your commute, the winding whooshing through the grass and trees, and errands become little snippets of poetry that you can't ever seem to quite weave onto paper. Romanticize your life. It's not silly. It's how you live and love all the more fiercely.
~ The Wandering Rose Child ~
As the world becomes increasingly ugly, callous, and materialistic, it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that makes an ugly street look beautiful is just as real as the street itself.
~ Elizabeth Goudge ~
Let me offer you this bit of encouragement. Many of the best things, the most wonderful things, happen without any input from you. Moss creeps. Fireflies light up the fields. People do good all over this wayward world. The moon says goodbye and hello again. Chickadees sing. Acorns transform into giant, gnarled oaks. Just do your best as long and as often as you can. But toil not, dear one.
~ Unknown ~
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.
~ Helena Bonham Carter ~
I very much believe that if we humans stopped at least once a day, twice if suffering with anxiety, to watch the light dance through the trees, the world collectively would be a calmer, more peaceful place to call home. It costs nothing but a few seconds of time and attention.
~ Amanda Watters ~
Maple syrup. Molasses. Honey. Nectar. These things are sweet and slow. You can be, too, precious soul. You can be, too.
~ Jaiya John ~