Glimpse Quotes

457 quotes by 375 authors

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from… — Dag Hammarskjold
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride… — Louisa May Alcott
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind. — Eckhart Tolle
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel â€”… — Joseph Conrad
It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and… — John Cage
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or… — Ian Mcewan
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. — Shannon Hale
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;… — Evelyn Waugh
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character. — Michael Connelly
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure… — John O'Donohue
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in… — Madeleine L'Engle
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse… — Marilynne Robinson
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to… — Ayn Rand
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. — Helen Hayes
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still… — Thomas Moore
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration… — John O'Donohue
I didnâ€™t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures… — Anne Rice
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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