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May you find great value in these Overlooks quotes and sayings.
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Rainbows and butterflies are themselves beautiful and highly symbolic,
but they are also representative of
all the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
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