Quotes about Vision

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

The visions you glorify in your mind, The ideals you enthrone in your heart.. This you will build your life by... This you will become.

Honesty is a suitor with piercing vision who isn't swayed by pretending and positioning.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

That is exactly what we need. Eyes to see. Isn't that what Jesus offered us—clarity? Recovery of sight for the blind (Luke 4:18)? We need clarity and we need it badly. A simple prayer rises from my heart: Jesus, take away the fog and the clouds and the veil, and help me to see... give me eyes to really see.

You will not think clearly about your life until you think mythically. Until you see with the eyes of your heart.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? The transient pleasures as a vision seem, And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.

You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.