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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Travel World Attention
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law
from observation of the works of Genius,
whether of man or Nature.
The Artisan is he who merely applies
the rules which others have detected.
- Henry David Thoreau
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
Dwell in stillness.
Observe without reacting and without judging.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
For everything observed or experienced,
each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.
A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselves
about what has happened or is happening.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a fact often observed,
that men have written good verses
under the inspiration of passion,
who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts
and grinding out conclusions.
- Charles Darwin
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
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