Seeing Quotes - Page 3

• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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  If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• ...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready. He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us. . . but it's up to us to do the walking.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  Inspirational, God, Heart

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• At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.297, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Smile, Encouraging

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• The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

  Wendy Mass

  Happiness, Happy, Being Yourself

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Every Soul a Star”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Motivational, Inspiring, Travel

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012

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• What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

  Steven Furtick

  God, Religious, Father

  Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.173, Multnomah

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

  Ivan Panin

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

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• That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

  Edward Gordon Craig

  Art, Writing, Mean

  Edward Gordon Craig (2008). “On the Art of the Theatre”, p.41, Routledge

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Encouragement, Eye, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 15, 2013

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Photography, Records

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• All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Life, Relationship, Philosophy

  "Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World".

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• There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Imagination, Vision

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• I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

  Lucy Grealy

  Wisdom, Truth, Hard Work

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

  Rene Angelil

  Life, Artist, Perfect

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• Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

  David McCullough Jr.

  Inspirational, Climbing, Air

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes.

  Michael Franti

  Love, Positive, Thankful

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• I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

  Vida Goldstein

  Love, Marriage, Women

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• I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

  Irving Penn

  Photography, Art, Long

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Savages

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• She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

  Joanne Harris

  Eye, Thoughtful, Looks

  Joanne Harris (2009). “The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

  Haruki Murakami

  Unique, Color, Personality

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