Quotes About Seeing With New Eyes

#1. We only get what we can deal with.

"The real voyage of discovery consists...in seeing with new eyes

Sinead Moriarty

#2. Discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

#3. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.

Paul-Emile Victor

#4. LARRY NIVEN is best known as a science-fiction writer.

Neil Gaiman

#5. It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.

Elmore Leonard

#6. Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

Jan Myrdal

#7. Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.

Lynn Margulis

#8. It's my downfall. I like sugar. I like fast cars. I like sexy men.

Kitty French

#9. I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.

Kenneth Oppel

#10. Dreams are practical reflections of feelings and concerns that were present in your mind at the time you had the dream. You are smart and practical. So are your dreams.

Charles McPhee

#11. No matter how much you believe that you 'have nothing to wear', seeing your clothes with new eyes will show you that you have more than you ever imagined!

Glynis Mackenzie

#12. Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ.

John Walford

#13. The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees.
Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong

Rob Brezsny

#14. Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#15. The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Alain De Botton

#16. He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil." ...
He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#17. 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

#18. The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

Ovid

#19. Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.

M.L. Stedman

#20. Zane ran his thumb over Ty's cheek, seeing him suddenly with new eyes. Ty had never tried to be something he wasn't. He'd never tried to hide what he was. Warrior. Weapon. Bad guy. Zane knew what he was. The pain and betrayal faded. The world faded.

Abigail Roux

#21. Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

J.R. Rim

#22. I don't think there's going to be sustainable demand for restaurants that force you to spend hours there.

Danny Meyer

#23. Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.

Krista Tippett

#24. Go to sleep then, safe in the financial fortress you built on a transgression and yet still it stands.

Liane Moriarty

#25. We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing ... a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

Plotinus

#26. It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

Marcus Sedgwick

#27. Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

Russ Carnahan

#28. I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

Emily Dickinson