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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Perspective
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin 
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- 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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I see you.
- the movie Avatar
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
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
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- 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
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
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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
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
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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