Eyes
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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray'. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria — it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.
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