Amy Tan Quotes

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

I want to be invisible.

We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

I saw him because I see everything. Easy when no one notices you.

Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.

It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

I have a great way of disappearing, and I'm able to do things people would never imagine. I'm often not recognized because I'm easy to hide if I change my hairstyle or put on a hat. I disappear very easily. That's not hard for me to do.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances.

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.