The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
Interpretation
True understanding comes from emotional insight rather than mere observation.
This quote suggests that the most important aspects of life, such as love, kindness, and connection, cannot be fully appreciated through physical sight alone. Instead, it emphasizes the need for emotional perception and intuition to truly grasp the essence of these vital experiences.
In practice
In a motivational speech, one might say, 'Remember, the essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.'
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.
Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faithβas mysterious as faith itself.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.
There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.
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