Browsing Topic Best Distance Quotes

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart.

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Things must be felt with the heart.

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don’t know that I Love You.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

The introduction of optical fiber systemswill revolutionize the communications network. The lowtransmission loss and the large bandwidth capability of the fibersystems allow signals to be transmitted for establishingcommunications contacts over large distances with few or noprovisions of intermediate amplification.

You can’t go the distance with too much resistance

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent.This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern … Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire–fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.