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Seeing The World Quotes

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Sarah Dessen
“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”
Sarah Dessen, The Moon and More

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems.”
Petek Kabakci

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees—or seeing what he believes. Either way.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper

Samuel Albert Taylor
“(I) want to do everything and see everything, sense everything and feel everything and taste everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used. To be in the world, and of the world, and never to stand aside and watch.”
Samuel Taylor, Sabrina Fair

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.”
Petek Kabakci

Friedrich Nietzsche
“When every tree can suddenly speak as a nymph, when a god in the shape of a bull can drag away maidens, when even the goddess Athena herself is suddenly seen in the company of Peisastratus driving through the market place of Athens with a beautiful team of horses - and this is what the honest Athenian believed - then, as in a dream, anything is possible at each moment, and all of nature swarms around man as it were nothing but a masquerade of the gods, who were merely amusing themselves by deceiving men in all these shapes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Olga Tokarczuk
“The truth is terrible: describing is destroying.”
Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

Terry Pratchett
“To study the enemy you have to get under his skin. When you're under his skin you start to see the world through his eyes.”
Terry Pratchett, Thud!

Imania Margria
“I know people can be judgmental and difficult. But if you shut yourself away from the world, you'll never see how beautiful it really is.”
Imania Margria, The Pacemaker

Mehmet Murat ildan
“While you are walking on a street, stop and lie down and look around you! Make it a habit to see everything from the uncommon corners because all the unnoticed things will be visible when looking from the ignored angles!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Julieanne O'Connor
“Nature happens, but sometimes, if you're not told just how special it is, you take it for granted. The same can be true with people.”
Julieanne O'Connor

Jane Wilson-Howarth
“a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.”
Jane Wilson-Howarth, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

Seth Adam Smith
“Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see.”
Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

Mala Naidoo
“The leafy avenues, well-trimmed hedges and colourful, kempt gardens had oodles of eye appeal. She could see herself taking walks down the tree-lined streets to enjoy the aesthetic landscape.”
Mala Naidoo, What Change May Come

Trey'von Knowles
“The content of the world is chasing me. I will not compromise my values with the world content.”
Trey Knowles

Mehmet Murat ildan
“People can look in the same direction and see different things or people can look in different directions and see the same thing! Why? Because it is the eye that looks, but the mind that sees!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Mehmet Murat ildan
“Wherever you look, what you don't see is always more than what you see, for two reasons: Your eyesight is poor; but even if your eyesight is very strong, this time your desire to see everything is limited! You only look at certain things and ignore everything else!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Louis Yako
“Going farther is not enough – what matters is the extent to which we master the art of seeing, knowing, and sensing the world as we go farther. Perhaps only travelers who know how to get lost and even be vulnerable can get close to seeing?"

[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]”
Louis Yako

“How a person sees the world is so very important.”
Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life