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It is better to do one's own duty,
however defective it may be,
than to follow the duty of another,
however well one may perform it.
He who does his duty as
his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Values Wisdom Self
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 realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- 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
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
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
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)
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
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
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
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
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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
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
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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