Best Visions Quotes
406 Visions quotes by 336 unique authors
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All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
— Oscar Wilde
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From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for…
— Arthur Compton
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. .…
— Isak Dinesen
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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped…
— John C. Maxwell
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave…
— Hillary Clinton
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... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
— Sylvia Plath
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A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
— Sylvia Plath
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My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
— Joss Whedon
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Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
— William S. Burroughs
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The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains…
— Kirk Douglas
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Now here I go again/I see the crystal visions. I keep my visions to myself.
— Stevie Nicks
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Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the…
— Erwin Blumenfeld
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There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude…
— Unknown Author
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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People who have visions should go see a doctor.
— Unknown Author
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The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the…
— Carl Jung
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It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from…
— Carl Jung
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This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this…
— Michael Chekhov
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A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
— Leon Krier
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When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in…
— Ingmar Bergman
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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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