"Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place."
- Daniel H. Pink
Empathy
"Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be."
- Faraaz Kazi
Relationships
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
- Saint Augustine
Compassion
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
Inspiration
"True love doesn’t need proof. The eyes told what heartfelt."
- Toba Beta
Love
"We learn life's deepest mysteries through eye contact."
- Omarian Atman
Awareness
"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."
- Audrey Hepburn
Compassion
"The tongue may hide the truth, but the eyes—never!"
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Honesty
"I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart."
- Myles Munroe
Vision
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
- T. E. Lawrence
Ambition
"I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere."
- Bo Sanchez
Faith
"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"
- Bob Marley
Self-awareness
"Eye contact: how souls catch fire."
- Yahia Lababidi
Connection to Earth
"Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, that he is part of you."
- Jeremy Aldana
Connection to Earth
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
- Sylvia Plath
Transformation
"Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes."
- Katherine Mansfield
Happiness
"There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others."
- Sarah McLachlan
Awareness
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
- Henry David Thoreau
Connection to Earth
"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Change
"Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions."
- Robin S. Sharma
Awareness
"But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you're right there in love again."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal."
- Samuel Richardson
Insight
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye."
- Charlotte Bronte
Awareness
"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."
- John Carmack
Success
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Vision
"When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears."
- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Healing
"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Compassion
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Optimism
"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
- Ray Bradbury
Creativity
"The eyes hold tears for so long; let us fill it with love and passion."
- Suman Pokhrel
Love
"Eye to eye contact is the best way of communication."
- Nikita Gogoi
Connection to Earth
"The eye is the jewel of the body."
- Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes."
- Rumi
Love
"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Gratitude
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- E. Joseph Cossman
Overcoming Obstacles
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
- Leonardo da Vinci
Awareness
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford
Focus
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
- Sophia Loren
Belief in Self
"Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become."
- Johnny Weir
Self-esteem
"The eyes shout what the lips fear to say."
- William Henry
Awareness
"When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"You never know how you look through other people's eyes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Awareness
"Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open."
- Jordan Peterson
Courage
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."
- Oswald Chambers
Faith
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
"What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes."
- Harry Houdini
Belief
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
- Gilbert Parker
Love
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Inspiration
"If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine."
- Federico Fellini
Spirituality
"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
- William Shakespeare
Adversity
"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities."
- Benjamin N. Cardozo
Vision
"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"
- Billy Graham
Adversity
"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
- Victor Hugo
Relationships
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
- St Jerome
Philosophy
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain
Imagination
"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Reflection
"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
- Virginia Woolf
Self-awareness
"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."
- Desmond Tutu
Adversity
"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
- Marilyn Monroe
Success
"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?"
- Sir David Attenborough
Awareness
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
- Heraclitus
Insight
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
- Octavio Paz
Creativity
"When the heart is full, the eyes overflow."
- Sholom Aleichem
Compassion
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
- Sigmund Freud
Insight
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
- Benjamin Franklin
Love
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Creativity
"Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person."
- Stevie Wonder
Insight
"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."
- Adele
Creativity
"A fool is wise in his eyes."
- King Solomon
Wisdom
"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."
- Jim Carrey
Relationships