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I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
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Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
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In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
In my prayers I never said I needed a home.
I said I wanted a sanctuary.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work
without having to talk
because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
- Albert Schweitzer
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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
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.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
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
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- 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
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
I see you.
- the movie Avatar
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
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