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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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