Invisible Quotes - Page 24

• She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

  Jojo Moyes

  Moving, Loss, Years

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• I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Desire, Bigs, Believer

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• Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Justice, Community

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• The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thoughtful, Air, Magic

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.242, A&C Black

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• Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mistake, Believe, Self

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• What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

  Chris Abani

  Simple, Compassion, World

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Positive, Kindness, Evil

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “I Have Landed”, p.393, Harvard University Press

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• Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.

  Jon Jones

  Time, Unstoppable, Invincible

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• A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Time, Labyrinth, Symbols

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Business, Ice, Alcohol

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• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Courage, Money

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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• Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, Religion, Leviathan

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.110, Broadview Press

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• No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Believe

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.139

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• That was the first sound in the song of love!
  Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
  Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
  Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
  And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
  The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Song, Fate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.108

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• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  Wallace Stevens

  Poetry, Priests, Poet

  Opus Posthumous (1957) "Adagia"

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• Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Mind, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Poetry, Keepsakes

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

  Penn Jillette

  Rude, Religion, Seems

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Jay Allison, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Rare Moments

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.48, University of Iowa Press

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• But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Wings, Ideas

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• The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

  William Barclay

  Men, Spirit, Worship

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”

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• You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.

  T. D. Jakes

  Home, Worship You, Church Service

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• One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

  Louis L'Amour

  Eye, Vision, May

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.281, Bantam

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• All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

  Margaret Atwood

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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