Glimpse Quotes - Page 7

• Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Giving, Young

  Jonathan Kozol (2007). “Letters to a Young Teacher”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

  Max Lucado

  Baby, Self, Boss

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.

  Janet Frame

  Dream, Memories, Moving

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  People, Facts, Sometimes

  Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Breathless”, p.138, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Light, Color

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Psychics, Practice, Black

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• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  Vince Neil

  Men, Thinking, Sometimes

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• I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.

  Abbi Glines

  Love, Heaven, Hell

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.612, Simon and Schuster

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• Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Lying, Giving

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• I just love to play characters that are layered and that I can relate to in some way, even if they're completely different than me; that I can see a glimpse of humanity and something I'm interested in exploring.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Character, Play, Humanity

  Source: collider.com

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• You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Loyalty, Hurt, Heart

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1667, Ageless Reads

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• There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.

  Barry Long

  Time, Reality, Forever

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

  Robert Falconer

  Stars, Truth, Knowledge

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• All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Lovers, Eternity

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Other Wind: The Sixth Book of Earthsea”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Wine, Men

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• All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ocean, Humility, Reason

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Rivers, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Home, Biblical

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• All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Stars, Real

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• It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

  Hernando Cortes

  War, Firsts, Wonderful

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• Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
  and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
  like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
  and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
  or a pile of rubble.

  Lucia Perillo

  Italian, Rocks, Names

  Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.

  George MacDonald

  Morning, Stars, Soul

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5396, e-artnow

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• For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to say is 'icon,' 'star,' 'hero,' ones so possessed by an internal vision of divine goodness that they give us a glimpse of the face of God in the center of the human. They give us a taste of the possibilities of greatness in ourselves.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Stars, Hero, Mean

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• Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten what it was like to be without it, and for a moment I floundered, wondering how I would recognize myself. I knew for certain it would return, sneaking up on me when I wasn’t looking, but meanwhile there were bound to be glimpses of light if only I stayed around and held fast to the long perspective. It was a chance that seemed worth taking.

  Daphne Merkin

  Moving, Light, Long

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• Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

  Roger Angell

  Loss, Faces, Tough

  Roger Angell (2007). “Let Me Finish”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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