Magnificence Quotes

• A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Religion, Stressed

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Keys, If Only You Knew, Ifs

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• Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.

  Albert Hofmann

  Animal, Reality, Kingdoms

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview With Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life.

  Anita Moorjani

  Realizing

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• For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

  Richard Baker

  Insomnia, Moon, People

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• The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

  Helen Keller

  Compassion, Air, People

  The Home Magazine, Apr. 1935

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• Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

  Teresa of Avila

  Palaces, Remember, Self Knowledge

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• I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without.

  Anita Moorjani

  Stars, Lying, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Dec 15, 2014

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• The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

  Alan Cohen

  Fighting, Evil, Purpose

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• The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?

  Jim Rohn

  Self Motivation, World, Magnificent

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 01, 2013

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• Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Perception, Listening

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• I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Land

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• A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Creativity, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “English Traits”, p.178

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• Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.

  Alex Grey

  Love Life, Love Is, Mountain

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• Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

  Emily Carr

  Disorder

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

  Edmund Burke

  Stars, Views, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.78

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• Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Balance, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gossip, Sublime, Promise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

  Samuel Johnson

  Business, Advertising, Advertisements

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.159

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