A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. β Les Brown
If one is far away, one also gets far from the heart. β Turkish Proverbs
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. β Sophocles
Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind. β Parmenides
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. β Miyamoto Musashi
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. β Samuel Johnson
The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home. β Charles Studd
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. β Simone Weil
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. β Sun Tzu
Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away. β Hakuin Ekaku
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. β Howard G. Hendricks
We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. β Nichiren
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved. β Peter Brook
If near ink, you will be black; if near light, you will shine. β Vietnamese Proverbs
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. β Alan Watts
Short Far Off Quotes
If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home. β Tom Waits
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. β John Pierpont Morgan
The nearer to the synagogue, the farther from God. β Yiddish Proverbs
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. β Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go. β Frank Ocean
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. β Thomas Carlyle
Far Off Image Quotes
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. β Friedrich Schiller
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Near Yet Far Quotes
We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself. β Krishnananda Saraswati
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. β Irving Babbitt
You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world because you were in it. β Brunhilda of Austrasia
The people who are meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, no matter how far they wander.
Far, yet near; such is the relationship of a man and a woman. β Sei Shonagon
Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way. β Friedrich Schiller
Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening star,
And yet her heart is ever near. β James Russell Lowell
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. β John Henrik Clarke
It is nearly impossible to be here now when you think there is somewhere else to be. β Guru Gobind Singh
In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.
He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will find restlessness and apprehension. β Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful. β Bernie Sanders
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? β Marcus Aurelius
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future. β Prince Charles
To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God. β Smith Wigglesworth
O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me. β Walt Whitman
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. β Zoroaster
Near Or Far Quotes
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door. β Meister Eckhart
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. β Jon Meacham
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love. β Saint Augustine
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally. β George Mercer Dawson
Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! β Ada Cambridge
If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation. β Jiddu Krishnamurti
We are what our thougts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated. β Helen Yglesias
How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us? β Dwight D. Eisenhower
Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. β Ralph Waldo Emerson
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. β Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Far And Wide Quotes
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. β Bayard Taylor
Spread the seeds of encouragement far and wide, and delight in the bountiful harvest that they will surely bring. β Ralph Marston
I too searched far and wide for the cure to addiction, but my medical and psychiatric background did not lead me to the cure because the source of addiction does not lie here,. β Abraham J. Twerski
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. β A.E. Hotchner
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. β A. E. Hotchner
If youβre twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel β as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them β wherever you go. β Anthony Bourdain
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. β Antonio Machado
I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me! β Dorothea Mackellar
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon? β Eugene O'Neill
The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect. β Dalai Lama
Far Away Quotes
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. β Henry David Thoreau
A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor. β Julius Nyerere
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. β Ramakrishna
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other. β Sojourner Truth
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him. β Ravi Zacharias
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. β Chinese Proverbs
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.
Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs. β Amin Maalouf
Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me β Eva Cassidy
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. β Felix Mendelssohn
Faraway Places Quotes
I leave these speculations to others. Itβs quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesnβt have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty. β Saul Leiter
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. β Dagobert D. Runes
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. β William Langewiesche
Only those who will risk going too far can possible find out how far one can go.
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. β Charles Simic
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place. β Mahalia Jackson
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place. β Baz Luhrmann
The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. β Mark Steyn
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. β Sam Ewing
I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there. β Aleksandra Mir
I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has that taste of the faraway or undiscovered place. But my anthropology has more to do with what's in my reach. β Ari Marcopoulos
You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. β Tom Petty
I'm gonna kick your teeth so far down your throat you'll be able to chew your own ass out for pissin' me off. β The Undertaker
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow! β Sergei Rachmaninoff
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. β Napoleon Bonaparte
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. β James Dean
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. β Peter Agre
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. β Andrew Carnegie
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. β Johnny Cash
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. β George F. Kennan
A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance. β Alexander Grothendieck
She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. β Joanne Harris
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree. β William Morris
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. β Sonia Sotomayor
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.' β John McGahern
Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer. β Sara Teasdale
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. β Adam Clymer
A good neighbour is better than a brother far off. β Danish Proverbs
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move. β Anthony Bourdain
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. β John Maynard Keynes
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. β John Maynard Keynes
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental. β Mark Rothko
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. β Glenn Clark
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. β Christiaan Barnard
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful. β Richard Dawkins
One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off. β Garry Marshall
What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important. β Janwillem van de Wetering
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself. β Michel de Montaigne
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. β Franz Kafka
I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas." β Frank Carson
The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
Far off a precise whistle is escheat
To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale. β Allen Tate
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. β Alan Watts
it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down. β Sonja Henie
The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints. β Simone de Beauvoir
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March! β Bayard Taylor
Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again. β J. K. Rowling
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. β Mary Roach
Every American has got to recognize, we are the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry is out of control ripping us off. β John Lewis
I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journeyο»Ώ to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him. β Makoto Shinkai
David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day. β Jane Mayer
Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not. β John Frusciante
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