10/12/2005 11:59:00 AM
For the First Time
Do we always see things in the same way or manner especially if it’s something familiar and see all the time and may take for granted? 'What’s there to see', is the common refrain. But we really do need to open our eyes if we want to look at things including situation and people from a different perspective or context. Things may not be what they appear to be and the ordinary can be beautiful. Here are 2 pics - of the moon looking skywards barely peering through the leaves and the sun reflected in the waters. So lets, For the First Time, try to learn to see and appreciate the beauty and wonders that is all around us. It’s worth the effort. "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
"If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being"
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
-- Jonathan Swift (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)
“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian Biochemist, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986)
"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle."
-- Paulo Coelho (Mystical author, one of
"You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing."
-- Denis Waitley (American motivational Speaker and Author of self-help books. b.1933)
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
-- Charles Kuralt (American radio and television Correspondent and Journalist, 1934-1997)
"Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways."
-- Duane Michals
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