Luna

“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”  

~ Tahereh Mafi

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” 

~ Kahlil Gibran

“We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.” 

~ Anaïs Nin

“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.” 

~ Fitz-James O'Brien

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” 
~ Mark Twain

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."

~ Thomas Merton

Magic

“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.” 

~Robert R. McCammon

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” 

~W.B. Yeats

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
~Tom Robbins

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
~Nora Roberts

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
~Roald Dahl

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.”
~Charles de Lint

“Children see magic because they look for it.” 

~Christopher Moore

“Music is the strongest form of magic.” 

~Marilyn Manson

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
~Albert Einstein

Tea Tag - October 13th