Beyond Surface Quotes

#1. To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

Michael Card

#2. As the eclipse progresses, a confusion of chattering birds sweeps low in search of dusk and their shadows skip over the water's surface and it makes perfect sense that these small creatures should be so moved by events beyond their reckoning.

John Pipkin

#3. We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

Kellie Thacker

#4. I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.

Cathy Maxwell

#5. Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person.

Nin

#6. George paused just beyond the sawhorses at the edge of a deep ravine that had been cut through the tar surface of Witcham Street. This

Stephen King

#7. Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#8. There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

Frederick Lenz

#9. People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.
The black and the black and the black.

John Fowles

#10. There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

Bill Viola

#11. Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

David LaChapelle

#12. Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Amanda Peet

#13. Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

Jeremy Spencer

#14. Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#15. The beauty of the island [Bora Bora} wasn't limited to its turquoise waters or green hills. That was mere surface beauty. The real awe of the place was evident in its stories. There was one waiting beyond every curve of the shore.

Sarah Jio

#16. He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn't seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.

Cassandra Clare

#17. You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly.

Richard Avedon

#18. People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

Daniel Keyes

#19. But there was a fire waiting. And there was a little meal laid out on a blanket. And there was a whole world beyond that shoreline, beyond the forest, beyond the knuckle mountains, beyond, beyond, beyond, not beneath the surface at all, but beyond and waiting.

Emily M. Danforth

#20. Ask yourself if you're taking the time to see beyond the surface.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#21. Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

Jaggi Vasudev

#22. Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.

Markus Heitz

#23. Some people should not be allowed to see beyond your surface. Seeing your vulnerability is a privilege, not meant for everyone.

Yasmin Mogahed

#24. Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Jeanne Moreau

#25. Fact, no matter how minutely observed, is truth with a small "t." Big "T" Truth is located behind, beyond, inside, below the surface of things, holding reality together or tearing it apart, and cannot be directly observed.

Robert McKee

#26. I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

Sarah Dessen

#27. We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.

David Mackay

#28. If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

James Whistler

#29. Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That

Connor Franta

#30. My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

Andy Goldsworthy

#31. The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.

Frederick Lenz

#32. It's the wonderment of water that makes it so appealing: thoughts of what's beneath the surface, or out there beyond a watery horizon.

Fennel Hudson

#33. If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

Geri Halliwell

#34. Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars.

Buzz Aldrin

#35. In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud. - WALLACE STEVENS, OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS

Rebecca Solnit

#36. As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.

Frederick Lenz

#37. The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.

Wu Wei

#38. But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince?

Mandy Hubbard

#39. Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences.

Pearl Zhu

#40. Women want their husbands to have the whole package. That means looking beyond the surface. Let's face it. His personality needs a complete overhaul. The guy's not only arrogant and obnoxious, but he's also - "
"Right here," a familiar royal voice said

Melissa McClone

#41. I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

Andy Goldsworthy

#42. Cubism. Seeing beyond what is on the surface. Moving both eyes and a nose to the side of the face. Dicing bodies and tables and guitars as if they were celery sticks, and rearranging them so that you have to really see them to see them.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#43. Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

Wallace Stevens

#44. Shadows in a cave are given to change. They dance and flicker with ever-changing shape and brightness. To contemplate the truly holy and to go beyond the surface of creaturely things, we need to get out of our self-made cave and walk in the glorious light of God's holiness.

R.C. Sproul