Kami Garcia Quotes

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.

Sometimes you can listen to a song all your life without hearing it.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

Sometimes you don't realise what you've got, because it's right in front of you.

You respect people you grew up around.

Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

People always get used to beauty though.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.

...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.