Quotes about Vision

Put the lights out, we shall see better.

Salutation to the Dawn Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The bliss of growth The glory of action The splendor of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision, But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

O the blest eyes, the happy hearts, That see, that know the guiding thread so fine, Along the mighty labyrinth. -from Song of the Universal

Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

To save myself, I would try to summon up a vision of Mattie, but I could not see her. I could not imagine her. Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone. And then I would wake up and be in awe to see the daylight coming and my old familiar workaday life taking shape again in the dear world. Coherence and clarity returned. I could imagine myself again. I could imagine Mattie Chatham. I could imagine Port William.

I know I'm not alone and I don't walk alone. That I won't. When the thin whisper of a veil between what I can't see and what I can is pulled back and for one brief second I get a glimpse of what will be. Where the words 'might' and 'hope' intersect.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.