Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi 
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
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
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
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- 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
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
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
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
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 important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
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
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nobody ever gets to see what could have been.
- the 2010 movie Charlie St. Cloud
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
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