#visible

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

#beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#alms #better #cannot #distaste #gate

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young. ↗

— Amy Grant

#becoming #being #center #front #growing

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest. ↗

— William Gurnall

#creatures #excels #glorious #light #most

As a private person, professionally I am invisible. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#i #i am #invisible #person #private

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#being #being there #blank #feeling #ink

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#boy #civil #civil war #finland #finnish

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#idle #invisible #labor #man #thought