Top 52 Quotes About Not Seeing Clearly

#1. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#2. You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Gloria Steinem

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#3. Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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#4. When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

Wallace Shawn

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#5. Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.

Bill O'Reilly

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#6. In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths.

David McCullough

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#7. Bringing him back" had been through those months my hidden focus, a magic trick. By late summer I was beginning to see this clearly. "Seeing it clearly" did not yet allow me to give away the clothes he would need. I

Joan Didion

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#8. A look of relief washed over his face, and it immediately warmed her heart. Despite his having made the arrangement, he had clearly been apprehensive about her reaction. Seeing him happy and so obviously pleased made the sacrifice all the more worthwhile.

Sarah Price

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#9. Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Julia Cameron

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#10. Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

Noah Levine

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#11. You can get to a place where you see clearly; that place is zero defensiveness.

Bryant McGill

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#12. When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Elizabeth Thornton

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#13. The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Peter M. Senge

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#14. To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.

Chester Bowles

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#15. Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.

Bob Brown

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#16. When you see only problems, you're not seeing clearly.

Phil Knight

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#17. Beyond all judgments of good and bad ... is perfection - Vivian Amis

Vivian Amis

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#18. Seeing ourselves clearly is the project of a lifetime.

Nathan Hill

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#19. I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

David Hockney

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#20. There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

Charlie Cox

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#21. The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

Frederick Lenz

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#22. Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

Pema Chodron

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#23. The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.

Caroline Myss

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#24. The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.

Daniel Smith

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#25. After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

Dilip Shanghvi

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#26. After sex, all animals are sad; after any kind of pleasure, really. We're not built for pleasure. We're built for agony and for seeing things too clearly, which is often a terrible agony in itself. I loathed myself then, and I loathed myself now. Dr.

George Alec Effinger

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#27. Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Chogyam Trungpa

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#28. Mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly."
"How do you see something that isn't there?" ...
"sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are" ...

Norton Juster

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#29. The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#30. He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to it. Oil is at record prices, and he's willing to spend both in Venezuela and in the region. But the question is, how much influence is he gaining

Michael Shifter

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#31. Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#32. And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

Steve Goodier

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#33. It seemed as if the whole of the world was slowly being stripped of innocence. Or maybe I was seeing a little too clearly.

Patti Smith

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#34. I think we are only afraid of ourselves," the doctor said slowly.
"No," Luke said. "Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise.

Shirley Jackson

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#35. Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

Andy Puddicombe

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#36. It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Bill Brandt

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#37. He hung up and looked at Rhage.
"Hate this," the brother said.
"I know." Wrath moved the sticky, blood-soaked hair out of the vampire's face. "We're going to get you home."
"Didn't like seeing you shot."
Wrath smiled softly. "Clearly.

J.R. Ward

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#38. Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.

Shannon L. Alder

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#39. There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.

Zhuangzi

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#40. He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Leo Tolstoy

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#41. Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision.

Jacob Liberman

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#42. 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

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#43. He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it.

Leo Tolstoy

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#44. There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don't know, that's when you're truly living.

Brian Molko

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#45. Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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#46. Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.

Mike Bickle

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#47. Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Nicholas Evans

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#48. Invisible God, who will most surely do as he hath said. If after clearly seeing that the onus lies with the Lord and not with the creature, we dare to indulge in mistrust, the question of God comes home mightily to us:

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#49. Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that - at the moment - I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

Charlaine Harris

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#50. The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.

John Gray

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#51. Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Jodi Picoult

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#52. Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.

Bryant McGill

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