Mirrors to the soul. Pretty graphic I found online.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing to me is looking into my son's eyes as he looks up at me. He's so full of wonder and curiosity. Funny I love to look at him while he's sleeping and his eyes are closed, but I can still tell how he sleeps from the amount of peace and serenity I find in his eyes. Eyes are one of the absolute first things I notice about a person, animal, creature. They can tell and hide so much. I am one that believes in the saying that eyes are the window to the soul. There are so many wonderful quotes out there about eyes, I thought I'd let some of them do the talking for me!
“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.” ~ Auguste Rodin
“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.” ~ Author Unknown
“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.” ~ G. K. Chesterton
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~ Henri Bergson
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” ~ Pablo Picasso
“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are so many more of these wonderful quotes that I could go on forever! There can be so much said in a simple look, love and anger, sympathy and compassion. They shed tears of joy and sadness, express pain and elation. Eyes have this mystery about them. Sometimes what they are not telling is more telling than words on lips. We can find comfort and peace or trepidation through someone's eyes. You can find smiles and laughter in someone's eyes. Sometimes you can see their whole lives without speaking a word. I had to pick eyes as an inspiration because there are precious few things in this world that do so much by just being what they are.
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