Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

Of the good things they do many will pass unnoticed, or will even not be considered good at all; but they need not fear that any evil or imperfect thing they do will be overlooked.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.

the truth is that most people are simply too distracted by their thoughts to have the selflessness of consciousness pointed out directly.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

Big things are often just little things that people notice.

If you think your life's purpose needs to hit you like a lightning bolt, you'll overlook the little day-to-day things that fascinate you.