Invisible Quotes - Page 35

• Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

  Ibn Arabi

  Quests, Revelations, Authority

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• The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Unique, Suffering

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• The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.

  Elizabeth Knox

  Liquid, Flight, Steam

  Elizabeth Knox (2014). “The Vintner's Luck”, p.187, Victoria University Press

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• If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.

  Max Beckmann

  Wish, Penetrate, Ifs

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

  Maile Meloy

  Kids, World

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• If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

  David Powers

  Atheist, Men, Ifs

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• What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

  Wayne Muller

  Kindness, Healing, What If

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• John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.

  William J Doherty

  Book, Successful, Keys

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• We have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.

  Jennifer L. Knox

  Stuff, Way, Fields

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• Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Average, Safe, Feels

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.42, Penguin

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• Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

  Muriel Barbery

  Shapes, Talent, Inventing

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• Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

  Ali Smith

  Two, Narrative, Surface

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• Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christ, God Is With Us, Sacraments

  Pope John Paul II (2013). “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”, p.7, Knopf

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• Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Realization

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.1, New Directions Publishing

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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.

  Arthur Koestler

  Giving, Intuition, Links

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Important, Trying, Wonder

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, People, Helping

  "'Who’s Looking for Me?': God’s and America’s Invisible Children" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2014.

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• It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.

  Tanya Luhrmann

  Important, Speak, Characteristics

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• To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Conditioning, Force, Breakthrough

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• The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wall, Believe, Mind

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• Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

  Gianni Versace

  Men, Personality, Missing

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• Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

  Erwin McManus

  Creative, Visible

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• Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream, Way, Ends

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Giving, Heaven, Allies

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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