Quotation Explorer - 'Seeing'

Happiness is seeing your mother-in-law's picture on the back of a milk carton. - Anonymous
We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. - Teresa Mummert
Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence. - Germaine Greer
Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before. - Gladys M. Hunt
Self Love is about seeing yourself through your own eyes. - Jasz Gill
If you love someone very trulyyou will start seeing other women's/men's just like other women's/men's - Jaiendra Puri
True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs. - Shannon L. Alder
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. - Eric Hoffer
When you graduate from "Being In Love" to "Loving Someone" you understand - Love is not about owning, Love is about wanting the best for them, It's about seeing or Helping them achieve great heights, with or without you. Love is not what you say, it's what you do. - Wordions
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul. - Mark Twain
They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor. - Shannon L. Alder
The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same-one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving. - Meister Eckhart
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Jackson
Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it. - Jill Telford
After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally. - Wendy Shalit
My question was:How did I go from merely seeing the dirty French Santa in a bar to being in his hotel room the next morning? And this presented me with an actual equation. How did one plus one equal old French Santa? - Augusten Burroughs
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. - Spanish Proverb
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - C. E. Stowe
Truly creative people in all fields can temporarily suspend their ego and simply experience what they are seeing, without the need to assert a judgment, for as long as possible. They are more than ready to find their most cherished opinions contradicted by reality. - Robert Greene (Author) Joost Elffers (Author)
To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map. - Abhijit Naskar
I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal… - Steve Maraboli
It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts. - Daniel Abraham
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. - Eric Hoffer
Every relationship is a trust, for you to learn or be taught; the moment you start seeing relationships as a trust, then you will begin to make the best out of it - TopsyGift
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view. - George Bush
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
What you saw is what I showed you. What you are seeing is what I'm showing you. What you are going to see, you can't even imagine the future me. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all. - Jacob Nordby
I wear a lot of pink cos' seeing pink activates endorphins and energizes my creativity. It is a colour of femininity and fierceness - Janna Cachola
When you are struggling to make both ends meet no one especially your close ones sees you but when everything is okay and beautiful then you will start seeing their faces. That is people and life . - Osunsakin Adewale
I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. - Ann Brashares
It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board. - Lionel Suggs
Many do not see that not to have dreams is far worse than seeing that their dreams do not come true. - Luigina Sgarro
It doesn’t pain so much seeing one who can’t or don’t understand often the right points of others as much understanding a person who out of own selfishness, either ignorantly or intentionally, often supports the wrong people. - Anuj Somany
Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision - Bob Selden
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. - William Shakespeare
Trust and believe in the vision of your mind that others cannot yet see. While others abide by the creed that seeing is believing, you must know that believing is seeing. - DeWayne Owens
Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you. - Deborah Brodie
When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror. - Debasish Mridha
When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror. - Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner. - William James
The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. - Alfred Hitchcock
Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming. - John Wray
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. - C.S. Lewis
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. - Epicurus
I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes. - Stephen Wolfram
Instead of seeing how much pain I can dish out towards those I disagree with, or who I believe have done me wrong, I seek to follow the golden rule and use my words and behavior to create more of what the world needs love, compassion, and connection. - Aspen Baker
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya? - Lynda Barry
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. - Albert Einstein
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf. - C. JoyBell C.
...for every type of idea someone can have - no matter how weird or strange or gross or out there or disturbing - there is at least one person out there who enjoys that kind of idea, and the best part is seeing a book work its way to that person. - Stylo Fantome
I am not seeing myself in your eyes, I think someone has replaced me - Zarak Shakeel
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Waking in the morning and seeing my books sitting at my bedside, is absolute happiness for me. - Andrea L'Artiste
To be successful in reaching goals, the right attitude is to never quit. Confidence is to keep the vision alive, by seeing a victory ahead that is worth fighting for. - Ellen J. Barrier
You loved me before seeing me;You love me in all my mistakes;You will love me for what I am. - Luffina Lourduraj
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it? - V.S. Naipaul
We live in a time when to reject the idea of an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful government is to be viewed by that government as being anti-government. - Dave Champion
Seeing is an art; To become an artist, you need to feel. - Iman Ghavamabadi
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. - Neil Gaiman
Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world. - Max Strom
Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes. - John Baillie
It does not surprise seeing a husband working as slave to his wife , but how he takes often the pride or pleasure of admitting it publicly without a bit of shame of living such disgraceful life. - Anuj Somany
It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you. - Debasish Mridha
Looking forward to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now. - Enza Vita
Life is a journey; let's enjoy it, seeing some exciting things, and having fun along the way. - Ellen J. Barrier
Except the human all are crying seeing my pain. - Tanmaya Guru
Seeing her cry still made me feel the same way it did earlier. - Faraaz Kazi
When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind. - Debasish Mridha
What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well. - Caitlín R. Kiernan
We only get what we can deal with."The real voyage of discovery consists...in seeing with new eyes - Sinéad Moriarthy
There are so many things that we learn in our lives most of which we can't learn without seeing the hearts of others. - Imania Margria
Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way. - Leila Summers
The difference between Philosophy and Poetry is that one deals with Aesthetics and feeling, The other with 'Seeing'. - Andrea L'Artiste
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE. - Ernst Haas
As she looks through the window; while seeing him give her his world, tears rolled down her cheeks in remembrance of the world she once had. - J.B
When we are self-aware, we are able to reach beyond ourselves and objectively assess others... allowing us to meet them where they are at, seeing into their needs and struggles, so we can understand the way they experience life, even if it is vastly different from the way we experience, our own. - Jaeda DeWalt
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. - Shannon L. Alder
Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both. - Olaf Stapledon
Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me! - Alvi Syahrin
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them. - Emanuel Swedenborg
Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord. - John Paul Warren
Together, we overcome the drought of happiness and goodness, by seeing our glasses half full and helping fill others’ glasses back up with love. - Emilyann Girdner
I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. - Stephen King
There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops. - Michela Wrong
What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them! - Ken Puddicombe
We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like we're together, because we're scared of seeing each other with somebody else. - Drake
Nothing is quite as beautiful as seeing someone do exactly what they were designed to do, to watch someone who has found that thing, that passion, that singular calling and expresses it with conviction. - Lori Stanley Roeleveld
Am I seeing or am i dreamingIts showing so I'm believingAm i seeing what i believe orAm i being shown then believing - Mohammad K. Walizada
It's really seeing student involvement as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience. - Adam Fletcher
There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap.And what would that be sir?Me - Russell T. Davies
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe. - Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. - Blaise Pascal
Men don’t realize that if we’re sleeping with them on the first date, we’re probably not interested in seeing them again either. - Chelsea Handler
We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out. - Stevie Nicks
If the people could be awakened to their senses by mere preaching or writing, then probably no person would be smoking upon seeing the statutory warning on cigarette packets. - Anuj Somany
We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it. - Brianna Wiest
Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question. - Dee Williams
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. - John Berger
The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon. - Benjamin R. Smith
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. - Eduardo Galeano
Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences. - Leeann Smith
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. - Terry Pratchett
Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty. - Shannon L. Alder
Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)! - Dada Bhagwan
Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white. - April Mae Monterrosa
It is an amazing feeling when you can proudly stand seeing your greatest dreams coming true - Harry Vested Jr.
We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul) - Charles de Leusse
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. - Thomas Jefferson
Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
We dream. We aspire. We hope. Sure, we can get down too. But it's not about that. It's not those moments that define us. It's those times when we're looking forward, seeing that brighter future, and acting on it. - Zechariah Barrett
Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. - Annie F. Downs
Seeing within changes one's outer vision. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both. - Joseph Wood Krutch
When we move about the planet seeing with the eyes of the heart, we connect with humanity on the deepest level possible and remember one of our soul's promises: to bring the wonders of Heaven, which reside in the Sacred Heart, to earth in physical form. - Molly Friedenfeld
The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! - Jodi Livon
Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder. - Gabor Maté
Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will. - Gregory of Nyssa
We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors. - Sunday Adelaja
I don't believe in love at first sight because my mother started loving me before seeing me. - Luffina Lourduraj
Whatever hand life has dealt you, seeing it positively will always make it a winning one! - Stephen Richards
Believing is seeing" is much more effective for me than the old notion that seeing is believing. - Harmon Okinyo
It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. - Beatrix Potter
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I’m saying that sometimes we don’t want to see the ugliness in others because it means seeing what’s ugly in ourselves. - Brian F. Walker
Finding yourself with your loves gives blood to existence, looking at one another seeing the universe. - Gwen Calvo
An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don’t know quite yet but I can’t wait to, and that is the start of everything. - Charlotte Eriksson
Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off. - A.A. Gill
I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn’s eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine. - Pamela Nicole
It does not surprise so much seeing a person surrounded by many fake supporters as much when he shows elation with them in spite of knowing their true intention and, even more, when all of them know one another’s hidden selfish intent. - Anuj Somany
Seeing our own smallness is called insight, honoring our own tenderness is called strenght. - Lao Tzu
Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing. - Fakeer Ishavardas
I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this: the twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you, the knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god. - Marie Lu
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult. - Linda Olsson
Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault; the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego. - Dada Bhagwan
By seeing the beauty of life, I attract them into my life. - Debasish Mridha
Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps. - Richelle E. Goodrich
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing. - Marcel Proust
It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them. - Dale Ludwig
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. - Benjamin Disraeli
Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that! - Jill Telford
Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need of an attitude adjustment. - Toni Sorenson
The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you become informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize that nothing is as clear and simple as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. - Bill Watterson
A place where the mind can attain stillness meaning doing darshan (seeing with the intent of worship) of a great person who has stillness of the mind, can still the mind of other person, however the chit is not steady there. - Dada Bhagwan
Seeing Oneam undone!Enemy norlo! friend-sans One-is none.That! is "am"One-o-One! - Fakeer Ishavardas
I am an expert at seeing peoples greatness. - Monika Zands
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt
Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. - Michele Shea
The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them. - J.K. Rowling
Love's failure isn't blindness, but seeing what isn't there. - Marty Rubin
Just the sight of one another, just the sight of our smiles was enough to fill our hearts with the joy of seeing each other again. - Sawada Tsunayoshi
Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect. - Francis de Sales
True love isn't about being perfect. It's about seeing each other's imperfections as beauty. - Cori Garrison
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His. - Charles R. Swindoll
It was possible that he was making some progress in his mental health condition by seeing me. - Holly Goldberg Sloan
What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake. - Don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing Makes Me Feel Happier Than Seeing A Child Smile From Happiness. - Chris Mentillo
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. - Henry Ward Beecher
By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone. - Tawny Lara
Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Gnani Purush’ (The Enlightened one) is pure, so one becomes pure by just seeing him. - Dada Bhagwan
Avoid fear because it will blind you from seeing God’s purpose about your life and limit your potential. - Gift Gugu Mona
David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most?: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation. - David Bowie
Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person. - Reddit user coolstoryreddit
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Johnson
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind. - Andy Leeks
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. - Ernest Hemingway
The only things worth seeing are beyond what you can actually see. - Joseph Brown
i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart. - Ava
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire
Seeing either Obstacles or Opportunities is a CHOICE! - Harrish Sairaman
The only thing that can be said with an absolute certainty by seeing the behaviour of a vast majority of the people on the Earth is that an invisible Almighty is a big lover of watching the comedy activity. - Anuj Somany
People always say that they want to understand so that they can believe. But in MY reality it’s just the opposite. I believe because I DON’T understand. I HAVE to believe, because there’s no other way to explain what I’m seeing, feeling, or experiencing. - Sean Patrick Flanery
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life. - Timothy J. Keller
It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light. - Mary Stewart
It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind. - David Mitchell
I’m seeing so much of America today, Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him whenever things were not to his liking, he’d say that I’m seeing so much of America today. - Karen Joy Fowler
It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories. - Auliq Ice
Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it. - Sumner Davenport
So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there anyway except for this girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes: I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date. - Steven Wright
In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more. - R. N. Prasher
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. - Publilius Syrus
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done. - Josh Billings
Seeing ourselves as others would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. - Franklin P. Jones
I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me. - Lady Gaga
Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help. - John Knowles
time is happening all at once we travel down it seeing only the presentthe big bang was that big, its still banging - e.webb
Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps.Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance.Ugly is not the absence of beauty.Uglyis the inability to identify it.The inability to be surprised by it.It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it.Beauty is simplythe manifestation oflove. - Kamand Kojouri
The heart doth recognise thee,Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet,Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete,—-Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. - Maria Montessori
She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?''I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker. - Sean Black
If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the sense of feeling to perceive colors or to the power of seeing to perceive the sweetness of food. - Jonathan Edwards
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. - Rodney Dangerfield
Now I sense the perfume of flowers like seeing a new thing.I know they smell just as well as I know I existed.They’re things known from the outside.But now I know with my breathing from the back of my head. - Alberto Caeiro
i know it all ends the same,but i was interested in seeinghow you would break my heart. - AVA.
Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong. - Paul Silway
Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results - Sunday Adelaja
No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started. - Guy Finley
I love seeing young black women out in the world defying the "unfavorable odds" given by society. - Andrea L'Artiste
It doesn't pain seeing who she turned out to be a face now, but knowing so much how she pretended to be who she was not for all these years without a tinge of guilt and shame. - Anuj Somany
As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered. - Ann Druyan
The greatest joy in traveling is seeing where you end up. - Ken Poirot
If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. - Alfred Hitchcock
Strength is seeing yourself as you are. - Taro Okamoto
Realization is the direct seeing that this entity you have believed yourself to be has its roots in something infinitely vast and that this entity is not separate from that vastness, the source, the absolute. - Enza Vita
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. - Franklin P. Adams
I remember seeing this video for the first time in college - miserable, half-drunk on Keystone Light, a Camel Light smoldering in my mouth, about to desperately tap-dance my way through another social interaction - and saying out loud: "I fucking *get* you, Bee Girl. - Dave Holmes
A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things. - Bill Barich
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. - David Searls
Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are. - Enza Vita
Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose. - Kamand Kojouri
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. - Doug Larson
Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong. - William Hazlitt
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. - Compton Gage
The lies they've convinced their eyes that they're seeing, will not mar the truth in my lens. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. - Martha Stewart
The dirtiest minds amongst the adult males are perhaps the ones who back-up their support to the women, but back- out seeing when the men are in the same situation. - Anuj Somany
If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read? - Michael Bassey Johnson
The price of seeing is silence. - Marge Piercy
Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal. - Brian Eshleman
Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences. - Josh Tenenbaum
Here’s how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing. - DeWayne Owens
Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing. - Aleksandra Ninkovic
Reality is seeing that the peace in a picture is a dream. - Lee Wen
As she looks through the window; while seeing him give her his world, tears rolled down her cheeks as she remembers the world she once had. - J.B.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. - Sara Sheridan
Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it. - Lionel Suggs
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough. - Samuel Johnson
...seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts. - Seth Grahame-Smith
When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right. - Rebecca McKinsey
I pop the lenses out of my sunglasses that way I see the bright side of things because if you always look at the dark side of things your not seeing the brightness that all things have and it's like you're stuck in a cloud of darkness - Tiwanee Benjamin
You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams. - Jodi Picoult
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
It is only by seeing beauty in everything that we can see it in any one single thing, day after day. Don't run into the arms of obsession, for that quickly fades. Long lasting love comes from an open, loving heart. - Vironika Tugaleva
We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Retaining our capacity for reasonis common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment. - H.E. Davey
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.
Seeing wildlife is like seeing celebrities, only better. - Tanja Andrews
If others are judgmental and do not appreciate your life's work, don't be dejected. Try to see the incapability of others who are unable to understand the things you understand, and appreciate the capability of seeing something which is not visible to others. - Ashish Mandlik
When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism. - Colin Firth
When people see own advantage with a person who has a lot of money, they will say generally that he has a good attitude, but if not seeing own benefits then most of them are most likely to say he has an attitude that is a bad one. - Anuj Somany
Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life. - Chuck Palahniuk
There's nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger. - Laura Moncur
To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects. - Mark Driscoll
Well, I didn't really know what to say. So maybe I should say that I have thought about you and I like you, I like seeing you, I care for you and maybe I love you too. And the next time if you tell me you love me, I'll--" She stopped."You'll what?""I'll say I love you too. - Colm Tóibín
It does pain a lot for not able to say a different & caring thought being felt inside, but it feels even more agony by saying out the same and then seeing the indifferent attitude of the people towards it. - Anuj Somany
Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis. - Ali Vincent
The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children. - Anonymous
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew. - Libba Bray
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. - Henry Miller
You create and plan your thought by seeing, reading and hearing the right things. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
There are things we all know about but we don't think they are important.Like hurting while seeing your share of love and attention going to someone else but smiling at it because you tell yourself that maybe they deserved it more.No. You deserved it.What makes you think you don't? - Simran.M.Anthony
Imagination is a process of seeing events or things with the minds eye. - Debasish Mridha
seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death - Brandon Scott Gorrell
If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing. - Tanya Masse
Sei: The Kudzu snacks were so good I had two and a half bowls but seeing you eat 16 and a half bowls was disgusting. I sriously considered killing you.Okita: You're horrible! Besides then I'd bleed Kudzu snacks!Sei: NOO! STOP!!! I CAN SEE IT!! I'LL HAVE NIGHTMARES!! - Taeko Watanabe
Hey, the ubiquitous Leak-Cam is to 2010 as the bottom-of-the-screen news ticker was to late 2001: What you're seeing beneath the news anchor or talking head may not actually include any new information, but you feel like you're watching something dramatic. - Jim Geraghty
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. - Dave Barry
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