Seeing Quotes

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

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, People, Lovely

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.77, Penguin

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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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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• 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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• I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Done, Want

  "Letters of the great artists from Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 256, 1963.

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• The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Vision, World

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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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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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

  Anthony Doerr

  Inspirational, Eye, Forever

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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  Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Philosophy, Too Late

  Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Life, Want, Famous Women

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• Vision is seeing the invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vision, Invisible

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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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• 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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• When its dark enough you can see the stars.

  Charles A. Beard

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

  "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

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• Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 17, 2012

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• You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Perception, Belief

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2013

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• Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Marriage, Wind

  Twitter post from May 05, 2012

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• As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beauty, Spiritual, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 27, 2016

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