Philip Levine Quotes

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

There are no ordinary moments.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

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.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

I pay attention to everything now - the taste of bread, the taste of water.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.

Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.