12/11/2023 0 Comments Magic universe quotes![]() Please check it out and support or share the campaign if you can. I need your help – my debut novel is currently crowdfunding with Unbound. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Frederick Douglass “Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” Plato ![]() “An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” Thomas Wharton Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. “Words, are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” J.K. ![]() They are the destination, and the journey. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” Carl Sagan Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. What an astonishing thing a book is…one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. “One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” Cassandra Clare “The stories we love best live in us forever.” J.K. “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” J.K. “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” Madeleine L’Engle What we say to ourselves in the privacy of our own minds. “When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.” Julian Barnes The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” Mason Cooley If nothing else, please remember, no matter how dark things get, no matter how difficult, if you continue to do your part, the Universe has to do its part - it's the law, and things will turn around.“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” Harper Lee I always knew it worked, but the thrill of experiencing it yet again, in spite of my worries, doubts, and frustrations, has been an awesome adventure one I know everyone deserves and can experience for themselves. I’ve now spoken in 156 cities in 42 countries on each continent but Antarctica, was featured in The Secret, wrote 18 books (2 debuting as NY Times bestsellers), which have been translated into 27 languages, and I’m LOVING life in ways I could not have even dreamed of during those sweaty, sleepless nights. (Many people ask what TUT stands for… it stands for “The Universe Talks”!) Fast forward to the present, Since the year 2,000, the NOTES have become a daily email and almost a billion have been sent. And literally, the next thing I knew, TUT’s Adventurers Club was born, I embarked on a world tour speaking of life’s magic and our power, and the Universe began using email. Whaaaaa! Has it ever!!! Somehow, during all the knocking and turning and visualizing, I acted on enough hunches to keep buoyed with the necessary optimism to press on and not look back. I also knew to focus on the end result, the kind of life I wanted, and to get busy turning over every stone, knocking on every door, following every impulse, so that theoretically, at least, the Universe could take care of the details. ![]() I knew that figuring out "the how's," wasn't really my job, it was the Universe's. As the months rolled by, there were plenty of nights I tossed, literally in a sweat, thinking "what am I doing with my life? How did I get here? What went wrong? What if I don't make any money at this? What if I have to sell my home? What if I can't find a job, and no one will buy my home? What if? What if? What if.?" And day after day, week after week, month after month, my reserves dwindled and nothing came in.īut I knew a trick. And figure out how to make it pay, later. So I decided that as long as I didn't have to work, yet, I'd keep doing the one thing that filled me with the greatest sense of accomplishment and purpose - write. Even more fortunately, I still had a thousand or so people looking forward to receiving my "Monday Morning Motivators" via email each week. Fortunately, no one was hiring (at least not me), and fortunately again, I had enough money from our retailing days to coast awhile. Not so long ago, after we closed down the last of the TUT stores (TUT used to stand for Totally Unique T-shirts) and liquidated our remaining T-shirt inventory, I briefly hit the pavement with my accountant's resume in hand. If ever there was proof of magic in my life, it’s that I now spend part of everyday writing for "the Universe."
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