See - Quotes
We don`t love babies and puppies because they`re cute. It`s the other way around: we see them as cute because evolution has designed us to love things that look like that.
To mortal eyes, you, Hope, do seem
a form divinely sweet;
but eyes of gods can pierce the dream
and see your blind deceit.
Unhappy men in times of ill
create you for their easing;
and as their Guardian Angel still
they worship without ceasing.
Why do you flatter me with praise?
Why do you then deride me?
Why in my bosom do you raise
a dubious heart to chide me?
Stay far and fair beyond my reach,
as first my soul you greeted!
I had depended on your speech,
but you have ever cheated.
"Well, I don`t think rocks would be very interesting to God," I said. "They just sit on the ground and erode." "You think that way because you are unable to see the storm of activity at the rock`s molecular level or the level beneath that, and so on. And you are limited by your perception of time. If you watched a rock your entire life it would never look different. But if you were God and could observe the rock over fifteen billion years as though only a second had passed, the rock would be frantic with activity. It would be shrinking and growing and trading matter with its environment. Its molecules would travel the universe and become a partner to amazing things that we could never imagine. By contrast, the odd collection of molecules that make a human being will stay in that arrangement for less time than it takes the universe to blink.
What shall I call you,
when my lips receive
the flaming ruby of yours,
and our souls fuse in the fire of the kiss
like night and day in dawn,
and I can no longer see the world,
no longer see time,
and I drown in mysterious
transports of eternity -
what shall I call you?
That which your heart disguises
open your eyes and see;
that which your eye surmises
let your heart wait to be.
Keep my love safe; take my love safe to where he goes, give him joy in who he sees, and make him a cause of joy in those who see him.
I love you so much. Even if I never see you again, [...] I am always going to love you.
If there is any one thing I love about writing more than the rest, it's that sudden flash of insight when you see how everything connects.
Look down on me, you will see a fool. Look up at me; you will see your lord. Look straight at me, you will see yourself.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.