Louis Mann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
-- Louis Mann

#Eye #Vision #Tears
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
-- Louis Mann

#Inspirational #Positive #Men
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
-- Louis Mann

#Giving Up #Commitment #Sacrifice
Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars.
-- Louis Mann

#Depression #Stars #Night

Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.
Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Louis Mann famous quotes

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