Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.
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Jonathan Price
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.
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Franz Kafka
Observing is the basis of wisdom.
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Eraldo Banovac
It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
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William Faulkner
The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn’t care what it was so long as...
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Jeff VanderMeer
More Quotes By Charles Caleb Colton
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.
Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship never.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, –in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other–it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a...
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
