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• It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Fall, Eye, Appreciate

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• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Eye, Autumn

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• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

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• If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

  Woody Allen

  Uncles, Sea, Religion

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• You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

  Joseph Campbell

  Christian, Kings, Believe

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Sunshine, Night

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• When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Love, Mind, Directors

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.50, Celestial Arts

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• Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested.

  Jean Ingelow

  Men, Wonderful, Wells

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.175

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• We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Faces, Abandon

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mistake, Church, Allegory

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.375, Library of Alexandria

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• So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

  Camryn Manheim

  Pride, Thinking, People

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• What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Revision, Common

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.125, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Dark, Light, Arise

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• I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope.

  Nick Vujicic

  Hope, Certain, Happens

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.33, WaterBrook

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• Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

  Robert Genn

  Blow, Insecurity, Safe

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Technology, Voice, Ipads

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• Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Son, Army

  "The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity", translated by Norman Edwards, 1932.

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• Say a miracle happened and you could pull stars from the sky. Even if that happened there's no way I would give up a game for you.

  Kim Su-mi

  Stars, Giving Up, Drama

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• Know that you yourself are a miracle.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Being Yourself, Knows

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• Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

  Silent lotus

  Life, Silence, Important

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• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure.

  Grace King

  Wonder, Cures

  Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you don't believe in miracles, you will see none.

  Anthony Douglas

  Believe, Ifs, Believe In Miracles

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• Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Thinking, California, Age

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• Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Blessed, Makers

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