Gazing Quotes

• The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

  Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

  Eye, Kissing, Soul

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• Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Soul, Beautiful Things

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• Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Romantic, Dream

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• Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Beauty, Mirrors

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Beautiful

  "The Shape". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "The Shape of Greatness" (p. 49), 2000.

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• I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

  Robert Breault

  Garden, Purpose, Sufficient

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• I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

  Eminem

  Stars, Moon, Busy

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• Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Love, Giving, Feels

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• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Darkness, Shrinking

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.101, University of Virginia Press

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• I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Gone, World, Window

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• Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

  Epicurus

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• We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

  Joseph Epstein

  Book, Mirrors, Use

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• If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

  Greg Egan

  Fall, Faces, Remember

  Greg Egan (2010). “Zendegi”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• In this world
  we walk on the roof of hell
  gazing at flowers

  Kobayashi Issa

  Flower, World, Hell

  Kobayashi Issa, “In This World”

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• Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

  Steven Saylor

  Distance, Details, Noses

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• All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

  Dan Brown

  Waiting, World, Realizing

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• If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Vision

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, Violin, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.

  Rumi

  Moon, Mind, Hats

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• I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if   maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Girl, Stars, Thinking

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• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

  James Joyce

  Eye, Vanity, Darkness

  James Joyce (1967). “Dubliners”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

  Alexander Smith

  Wisdom, Stars, Science

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.146

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• A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

  Stephen Hawking

  Reality, Cities, Views

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