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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
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
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 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
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
When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
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
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- 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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- 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
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
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
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
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
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)
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
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.
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
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
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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