Glimpse Quotes

457 quotes by 381 authors

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great… — Abraham Maslow
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears… — Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold… — Mahatma Gandhi
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself. — Chogyam Trungpa
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough… — Joni Eareckson Tada
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness… — Gerald May
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from… — R. D. Laing
The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse of Stillwater Cove,… — Doug Ferguson
On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual's mind, you perceive all mind. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present… — Huangbo Xiyun
Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the… — Yasmin Mogahed
Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults… — Vera Nazarian
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and… — Alec Soth
The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus!Â No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they… — Pope John Paul II
You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will… — Steve Ovett
Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress… — Sogyal Rinpoche
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. — Thomas McGuane
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing… — Gerhard Richter
But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and… — Marie Howe
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some… — George Berkeley
Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of… — Randall Kennedy

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