Invisible Quotes - Page 8

• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Eye, People

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• Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Real, Soul, World

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• All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Teacher, Self, Over You

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Understanding, Invisible Things, Clear

  Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Aeterna Press (1908). “On Consideration”, p.102, Aeterna Press

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• The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Real, Fall, Memorable

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• That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

  George Carlin

  Hands, Invisible Hand, People

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Hands, Worry, Soul

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1963). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Names, Principles, Dictatorship

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• Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

  Russell Peters

  White, Black, Population

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?

  Russell Brand

  Dna, Cells, Dust

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!

  Justine Larbalestier

  Want, Able, Ends

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing long sentences now, something I didn't use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Writing, Sunset

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

  Paul Auster

  Brother, Childhood, Brothers And Sisters

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. The embryo becomes a baby; the baby is born; its lungs continue to breathe - not only were they created but then they continue to breathe. The heart is not only created but it continues to breathe. If there is injury and disease that becomes present within the body, the body is also equipped with an immune system to correct that.

  Marianne Williamson

  Baby, Moving, Heart

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those kinds of moments. And initially people would say, "I don't think I have any." Their initial reaction was to render invisible those moments weaved into a kind of everydayness.

  Claudia Rankine

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

  Garth Greenwell

  People, Blind, Seems

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.

  Elena Tonra

  Feelings, Mind, Wake Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn't wait to move to New York to become the person I've always wanted to become.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, Moving, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are invisible in their own cars. You're driving past houses where maybe once in a while somebody is out, but that's about it. So I was interested in that aesthetic and I decided I wanted to write an apocalyptic narrative, but the more I thought of it, it seemed bizarre and untenable to me to pick one, so I just didn't.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Past, Car

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

  Kate Zambreno

  Thinking, Getting Older, Our Society

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Stars, People, Chance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.

  Marina Warner

  Moving, Understanding, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. My parents divorce at six, when I was six, really affected me. We moved around and I was with my mom and my sister. I have learned, by the way, there were amazing gifts that came out of that. For one, I'm living my childhood dream. I feel very fortunate.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Mom, Dream, Divorce

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.

  Teju Cole

  Book, Cities, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I think that's where the juiciest conversations and the juiciest drama lives. My goal with the series is to get people talking about and reflecting on how issues of race play out in their own lives. Since I've spent a fair amount of time watching time travel shows and movies where the leads are White (and can blend in really easily no matter the time period) I thought I would turn that on its head and see what might happen.

  Steven C. Harper

  Drama, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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