Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold Quotes

“Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. —Matthew 6:22, The Message”
― Umar Turaki, Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold

“He had really thought he had time. His father had once told him that the rain, the sun, and the clouds must first agree before a rainbow could appear. Why they chose to agree at any given moment was not anybody’s concern. What mattered was that the rainbow appeared. It had been said in a moment of anger. He knew that his father had been speaking to him about the difference between being a dreamer and a doer, about which produced results. Now the words took on a different meaning, a more convenient one. It did not matter what had happened before now, nor the things he had not done, nor the reasons why he had not done them. What mattered was that he was here now, that he was present.”
― Umar Turaki, Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold

“Sometimes, where wounds exist, words can be insufficient. Even an apology can be impotent. But a touch—as light as an arm around someone, as Dunka was doing with his sister. A gesture—as small as a head placed in trust on a shoulder, as Panmun was doing with her brother. These can heal.”
― Umar Turaki, Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold