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Welcome to these Background Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Background and Love.
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
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
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
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 were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
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
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
I see you.
- the movie Avatar
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
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 way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
Today, I See Spirit In The Face of Everyone I Meet.
- 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
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Today is my day to see myself as the face of god:
my mind sparks, and my soul sparkles;
my peace is counterpoint to the clamor of life;
I am a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- 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 only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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