Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.
There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.
Stichwörter: perspective value sight maid looks-fade
Why is it that the look of another person looking at you is different from everything else in the Cosmos? That is to say, looking at lions or tigers or Saturn or the Ring Nebula or at an owl or at another person from the side is one thing, but finding yourself looking in the eyes of another person looking at you is something else. And why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
Walker PercyStichwörter: sight social-etiquette
You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could be squeezed out of this forsaken place was used to make you. That's why you're so small, my friend: there just wasn't that much left." Fang laughed. "and that's why you can see us, you know, and nobody else can. You see everybody, even that lumberjack.
Daniel WallaceStichwörter: man goodness measure sight town
In your daily life, let your destined visions be farther than your gifted sight and your ultimate joy be vibrant than your demeaning worries. Think big, dream big.
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: life vision joy dream think happy destiny divine sight unhappy extra daily-life destined worries daily glad dream-big ultimate demeaning vibrant extra-mile think-big food-forth-thought
I am not moved by what I see.
; I am moved by what I believe. What I do believe is greater, stronger and mightier than what I have my eyes on. Deep in my heart I do believe, I shall overcome.
Stichwörter: strong belief god hope believe jesus jesus-christ christ sight move believing great see greater mighty stronger believed mightier moved i-believe-in-god i-believe-in-jesus
It takes the trust of God for things that exist, to wait on him for the evidence of things that do not exist. Faith and hope make you to thank God for the invisible things by looking at the visible things which were once invisible too.
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: belief god faith hope trust believe jesus appreciation unseen food-for-thought evidence invisible jesus-christ christ visible hopeful sight appreciate see messiah seen the-holy-spirit israelmore-ayivor thank-god faithfully seeing-is-believing seeing-is-not-believing the-father the-son
Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: eyes deaf sight blind hearing ear
I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.
Annie DillardStichwörter: vision world wonder universe risk seeing sight
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: ‘This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is (21).
Annie DillardStichwörter: life world philosophy nature sight
The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
Annie DillardStichwörter: nature animal searching sight look natural-world see find scientist
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