Seeing Clearly Quotes

Quotes tagged as "seeing-clearly" Showing 1-19 of 19
Celeste Ng
“I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.”
Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

R.J. Blizzard
“In life, there are as many critical stages as there are stars, most of the time we cannot see them. They are hidden by storm clouds or bright light. However, there are certain crucial junctures in life; even the blind can easily witness with a little soulful reflection. These moments, lived and experienced properly, bring beauty and grace into the life of every human willing to see.”
RJ Blizzard

Wayne Gerard Trotman
“One of the benefits of being an artist is being very observant.”
Wayne Gerard Trotman

Joanna Ruth Meyer
“You are not a mere storyteller. Your face is weathered, your hands rough with work - you have traveled far, I think.”
Joanna Ruth Meyer, Echo North

Daniel D. Maurer
“Spiritual assets allow us to see more clearly, love more deeply, and act more courageously.”
Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Don’t confuse naming something with knowing it.”
Clifford Cohen

Benjamin Zephaniah
“Nothing is as it seems. Seeing is not believing. Sometimes... you have to feel, touch, experience... and use your intelligence.”
Benjamin Zephaniah

David  Ault
“In someone else's belief, you are rich and free.
In someone else's eyes you are smart, capable and daring.
In someone else's world of existence you have it all.
In someone else's level of experience you have already reached their understanding of nirvana.
Whatever your story is, you are as blessed as you are willing to recognize you are.”
David Ault

Sol Luckman
“There are certain pivotal moments in life when clarity replaces its opposite in the blink of an eye.”
Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

Dan Krzyzkowski
“It's amazing how change creeps up on you. You can't look into a mirror and decide how much you hair has grown in the last hour. Only when it drapes over your eyes and obstructs your vision do you discover you aren't seeing clearly anymore.”
Dan Krzyzkowski, The Caller

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The changes have awarded me a rapture that comes only when you can no longer be lied to, when you have rejected the Dream.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Mehmet Murat ildan
“Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Jenny Knipfer
“How strange perspective is. When you are far away from an object, you can't see its true size. When you come face to face with obstacles in life, you can recognize how large they have loomed. Everything in my viewpoint has been tainted by my pain . . .”
Jenny Knipfer, Blue Moon

A.L. Buehrer
“Does it shock you that I see through my own eyes?”
A.L. Buehrer, Lightwaste

Leonard Seet
“My eyes hadn’t been looking. But now… My mind could see without my eyes interfering.”
Leonard Seet, Sharper Mind Darker Dreams

Nicole T.   Smith
“I think the longer you look at light, the more it changes.”
Nicole T. Smith, We Have Shadows Too

Isaac Yuen
“Perhaps burdened with the weight of what we have wrought, human beings have remained hauntable beings; and being hauntable means that we are still capable of turning our gaze, of looking up from our narrow preoccupations to be startled by the sight of a broader, vaster community. In so doing, we can come to realize a world that lies beyond us and use, and so come to see both the obvious and the obscure, the fleeting and the eternal, as elements beyond all reckoning of wealth and worth. Sometimes we can still see what is plain to see.”
Isaac Yuen, Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World