"Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age." Elizabeth I

"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it." Osho

"Look for the differences in the similarities and the similarities in the differences." Antonio Cirino

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." Henry David Thoreau

"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends." John Enoch Powell

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." Rabindranath Tagore

"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands." Benjamin Franklin

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Bad weather always looks worse through a window." Unknown

"When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden." Buddha

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet." James Oppenheim

"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one." Heraclitus of Ephesus

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." Cato the Elder

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." Vincent van Gogh

"Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold." unknown

"You know what I like best about looking at the stars? Not the stars themselves, but all those empty spaces between the stars... that's where I can imagine infinity." T.A. Barron

"An ordinary artist shows you the things everybody can see. The egotistical artist shows you the things only he can see. But the great artist shows you things nobody ever saw before." Pablo Picasso

"Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see." William Newton Clark

"You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it." Thomas Kuhn

"Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds." Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

"Of all the gifts you received at birth, your ability to behold the beauty of the world is the most precious. " Veronique Vienne

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie

"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." Henry Miller

"You are not here merely to make a living. you are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand." Woodrow Wilson

“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”Herodotus

"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see." Taoist proverb

"The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word." Galileo Galilei. 1564-1642. Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.

"Art is not what you see, but what others make you see." Edgar Degas

"Look, look long, and the world will come in." Joseph Campbell

“When an environment is new, we perceive the old one for the first time.” Marshall McLuhan

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881-1955)

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakens." Carl Jung

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." Helen Keller

"What the mind does not know, the eyes do not see." Indian proverb

"You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it." David Allen

“When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything.” Mehmet Karagoz

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

“You don’t have to see the world; what you have to do is observe the world.” Ray Charles

“An artist is paid for his vision, not his reporting.” Tom Lynch

“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.” Jonathan Swift

“Misuse or neglect the senses only at grave peril to every possibility of wisdom and well-being. The busiest and most abundant of the senses is that of sight.” James Agee

“Great photographs have the power to inform by presenting in isolation and with clarity that which is lost in the web of familiarity. They can expand our consciousness by showing us things we have never seen, closed our eyes to, or forgot to notice.” Carol Ehlers, Curator, LaSalle Bank Photography Collection

“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.” Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- )

“One day I realized that there is really only one blood vessel and that it takes on different characteristics depending on where it is. Look at your hand. Tell me, is this structure a single unit or a palm and five fingers? Whether you see the separateness of the stars, or blood vessels, or your palm and fingers, or whether you see the oneness of the sky and the vascular system, or your hand depends on your perception.” Judith Lasater, Living your Yoga

“To look at something as though you had never seen it before requires courage.” Matisse

“For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.” Donald Williams, U.S. Astronaut

“The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.” Edward R. Murrow