Paul Valery Quotes

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.

We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something.

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Sex is so much more in the mind than in the body.

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.