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May you find great value in these quotes by John Lubbock.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Perspective
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
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
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- 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
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
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
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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
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
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
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
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe,
and accept all things and beings
as parts of your infinite body.
When you perceive that an act done to another
is done to yourself,
you have understood the great truth.
- Lao Tzu
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
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