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Let these quotes by John Lubbock help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Perspective
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton 
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- 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
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
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
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
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.
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- 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
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
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- 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
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
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
Today, I choose to create joy in my life.
Whatever my external circumstances,
I choose to see all of life through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
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 only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
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
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
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