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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. -- Khalil Gibran
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. -- John Ruskin
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. -- Steven Saylor
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. -- James Joyce
In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants. -- Rainn Wilson
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? -- Stephen Hawking
Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul. -- Michelangelo
Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind." -- Frederick Glaysher
Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me. -- Haruki Murakami
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. -- Steven Saylor
Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead. -- Gyles Brandreth
I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water at a pike, I become the pike. -- Desmond Morris
The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background -- Lauren Kate
Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos. -- Charles R. Swindoll
While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars. -- Eminem
The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. -- Heinrich Heine
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. -- Alexander Smith
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. -- Alexander Smith
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. -- Talulah Riley
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear. -- Chuck Berry
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. -- Samuel Pepys
A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd. -- Rush Limbaugh
On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. -- Edgar Mitchell
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. -- Khalil Gibran
This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own. -- N. K. Jemisin
Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be. -- Artie Lange
I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things. -- Anousheh Ansari
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars. -- Walt Whitman
At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture. -- Daniel Hope
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. -- Haruki Murakami
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters--and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown. -- Thomas Hood
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more. -- Michael Morpurgo
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it. -- Chris Hadfield
Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children. -- Gary A. Kowalski
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. -- Albert Einstein
Do everything like someone is gazing at you. -- Epicurus
Never forget:we walk on hell,gazing at flowers. -- Kobayashi Issa
I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories. -- Matsuo Basho
I'd shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing at stars! -- Eminem
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon -- Matsuo Basho
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. -- William Shakespeare
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves. -- Joseph Epstein
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. -- David Hume
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping -- Nicholas Sparks
I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children. -- Suman Pokhrel
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back. -- Sarah J. Maas
In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers -- Kobayashi Issa
A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies. -- Robert E. Murray
I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind. -- Rumi
I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I sit with my heart wide open __ Thou hast gazing and pouring on it endless passion. -- Jamil Hussain
I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds -- Talulah Riley
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. -- Rumi
No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof. -- Augustus William Hare
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. -- Alain de Botton
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. -- Lizzo
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. -- Robert Breault
Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back. -- Sarah J. Maas
[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) -- Cecil Beaton
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high? -- Martin Scorsese
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. -- Charles Dickens
I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter! -- Loretta Chase
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying. -- Milan Kundera
She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it. -- Kiana Davenport
If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair. -- Elizabeth Prettejohn
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World. -- Helge Ingstad
The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do. -- Adam Smith
True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon -- Dante Alighieri
He's dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. -- Suzanne Collins
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat? -- Laini Taylor
How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else... -- Peter Lerangis
There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him. -- Willa Cather
We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost. -- Chin Han
A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment. -- Thornton Wilder
If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain. -- Greg Egan
Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair. -- Edith M. Thomas
He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity. -- J. K. Rowling
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master. -- Anthony de Mello
While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright. -- Gerrard Winstanley
His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling. "Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body of his comrade with fastidious distaste. "How unpleasant. -- Cassandra Clare
It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be. -- Frederick William Robertson
Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly. -- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you. -- Steve Pavlina
Frederick left the young couple gazing into each other's eyes. Revolting, the way otherwise sensible people could carry on, he decided. Something to do with being married, no doubt. Perhaps it damaged the brain. -- Caroline Stevermer
My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets. -- Jason Mraz

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