Charms Quotes

“To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently―charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world, and never the return. As only the unreal is not ignoble and empty, existence must be admitted to be abominable. Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectness of life.”
― Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“Damn you!" he reviled her, "damn you for your physical charms!”
― Jessica Steele, Misleading Encounter

“The Snowflake Charm

Be As Unique As A Snowflake: Embrace All Your Dimensions”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving.
I know a charm that will heal with a touch.
I know a charm that will turn aside the weapons of an enemy.
I know another charm to free myself from all bonds and locks.
A fifth charm: I can catch an arrow in flight and take no harm from it.
A sixth: spells sent to hurt me will hurt only the sender.
A seventh charm I know: I can quench a fire simply by looking at it.
An eighth: if any man hates me, I can win his friendship.
A ninth: I can sing the wind to sleep and calm a storm for long enough to bring a ship to shore.
For a tenth charm, I learned to dispel witches, to spin them around in the skies so that they will never find their way back to their own doors again.
An eleventh: if I sing it when a battle rages it can take warriors through the tumult unscathed and unhurt, and bring them safely back to their hearths and their homes.
A twelfth charm I know: if I see a hanged man I can bring him down from the gallows to whisper to us all he remembers.
A thirteenth: if I sprinkle water on a child’s head, that child will not fall in battle.
A fourteenth: I know the names of all the gods. Every damned one of them.
A fifteenth: I had a dream of power, of glory, and of wisdom, and I can make people believe in my dreams.
A sixteenth charm I know: if I need love I can turn the mind and heart of any woman.
A seventeenth, that no woman I want will ever want another.
And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell to no man, for a secret that no one know but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.”
― Lita Burke, Tredan's Bane

“Don't give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can't make you a better person.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The Hot Air Balloon Charm

Life Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“I hear my family's voices in the jangling of my charms.”
― Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“What's it a charm for?' she asked.

The man thought about this for a moment.

'It's your basic all-enveloping protection charm,' he said, his hands describing a cupped circle in the air. 'For protection against...'
'Envelopes?' said Abigail.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

“There is an odd quirk in the human mind that makes a fearful man prefer to go quietly to a wicked-looking, gnarled" witch "for a countercharm than to a respectable licensed sorcerer or an accredited priest of the Church.”
― Randall Garrett, Murder and Magic

“I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.”
― Lita Burke, Tredan's Bane

“Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?”
― John Keats 1795-1821

“Evolution has its charms. People think harsh training has been its door, but in reality, it was easier to find. The door stood right before their eyes. Always.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Kill them dead with all your charms of kindness.
Then bloody bury them with that absolute gorgeous smile.”
― Mischa Temaul

“Stupidity is a charm that leaves its master slowly... if it leaves at all.”
― Damon Thueson

“She sprang out of bed, the ornaments in her hair tinkling and jingling, making tiny versions of the noises of the chimes above her.
And that was Rapunzel's most striking beauty: her hair.
Bound in plaits and whorls and buns and knots and twists as tightly as she could manage. Some of the braids were so long they hung in loops that she put her arms through; they hung at her sides like giant sleeves or tippets from an ancient dress.
Decorating all of this were dozens of charms-- also silver, like her hair, but some with exotic stones like lapis and turquoise. Bells, tiny moons, hands, suns, six-pointed stars, eyes, and anything else Mother Gothel could lay her hands on at her daughter's request.
By these amulets Rapunzel definitely tried to control her hair, bind her hair, disempower her hair, and unenchant her magic hair.”
― Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

“The shops of Palo Alto's Sorcerer Square are in plain sight, but this ordinary-seeming plaza has a secret side. My favorite is my parents' shop, of course, where they sell the most energizing, freshly made tea in the city---with a hint of a joy charm. Plus there's Ana's bakery, where her just-baked cinnamon streusel cupcakes brighten up her customers' days and give them a shot of courage. We've also got what looks like a pharmacy (but it is truly an apothecary for everything from bottled charms to elixirs that fix spells that go wrong); a clothing store (useful when you need jeans that have real pockets---and magical ones to hide charms and enchanted vials); an ensorcelled vegetarian South Indian restaurant with the most fragrant spice mixes ever; a cozy gem store filled with healing crystals and magic-gathering mood rings; and an enchanted fruit shop with dragon fruit that burns with a sugary fire.”
― Julie Abe, The Charmed List

“[How "magical charms" work for healing:]

[It is Divine Love that heals and cures. But many people have difficulty accessing the full power of Divine Love. So magical charms can act as a permission slip to let Love and faith in, to do the healing.]

Ignorant people in their blind faith would accept a piece of wood or stone as their Savior or Divinity in the external creation, for which their heart's natural love will develop till by its energetic tendency it will relieve them of all exciting causes, cool their system down to a normal state, and invograte their vital powers.

The adepts, on the other hand, having full control over the whole material world, find their Divinity and Savior in Self and not outside in the external world.”
― Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science

“A woman chela [disciple] once asked the guru [Lahiri Mahasaya] for his photograph. He handed her a print, remarking," If you deem it a protection, then it is so; otherwise it is only a picture.”
― Lahiri Mahasaya