Seeing Quotes

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Inspirational, Being Happy, Attitude

Sir John Lubbock (1897). “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

J. P. Morgan

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

Gene Wilder

Future, Genius, Entering

"Young Frankenstein". www.imdb.com. 1974.

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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

Love, Inspirational, Life

Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

Stephen Shore

Photography, Vision, Ordinary

"Stephen Shore's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro

Life, Beautiful, Art

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Inspirational, Good Night, Dream

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.296, OUP Oxford

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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Marquis de Sade

Imagination, Feelings, Way

marquis de Sade (1965). “Eugénie de Franval”

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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

Nancy Reagan

Inspirational, Life, God

"'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.

Steve de Shazer

Change, Views, Perspective

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Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Katrina Kenison

Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

Timothy Keller

Inspirational, Hands, People

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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Vision is seeing the invisible.

Jonathan Swift

Vision, Invisible

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Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Life, Love Is, Meditation

Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar (Sri Sri) (2005). “Wisdom for the New Millennium”

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Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.

Bob Proctor

Respect, People, Mind

FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from May 26, 2013

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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Mark Twain

Wisdom, Men, Moon

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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

John Tukey

Data, Drawing, Unexpected

John Wilder Tukey (1977). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, Pearson College Division

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When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Hurt, People, Four Agreements

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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Every person you look at, you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking

George Carlin

Eye, People, Comedian

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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

William James

Teamwork, Men, Two

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