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Wise Quotes about James

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You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

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Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James

What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- James Feibleman

Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes

Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James

This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James

See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle

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

We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be an Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- 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

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

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

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

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