1. A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is. ~Seneca
2. A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some way becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude, ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness that created it. ~Albert Einstein
4. A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
5. A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement. ~Deepak Chopra
6. All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkein
7. Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale
8. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw
9. Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ~George Santayana
10. Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude. ~Katherine Mansfield
11. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ~Erik Erikson
12. Do not say,it is morning, and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. ~Rabindranath Tagore
13. Every exit is an entry somewhere. ~Tom Stoppard
14. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius
15. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ~Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
16. Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are. ~Gerald G Jampolsky
17. Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the scheme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me. ~Unknown
18. Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther. ~Unknown
19. Go some distance away, because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or proportion is rapidly seen. ~Leonardo Da Vinci
20. I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. ~Henry Moore
21. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. ~Rachel Carson
22. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow
23. If we can see clearly, it is because we stand on the shoulders of giants. ~Sir Isaac Newton
24. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~Marcus Aurelius
25. If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm. ~Elizabeth Bowen
26. If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
27. If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade. ~Unknown
28. In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ~Anne Frank
29. In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
30. Instead of pouring knowledge into peoples’ heads, we need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so that we can see the world in a new way. ~J.S.Brown
31. Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? ~Unknown
32. It is not the facts which guide ~our conduct, but ~our opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. ~Sir Norman Angell
33. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau
34. Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience. ~Bob Packwood
35. Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view. ~Obi-Wan Kenobi
36. May you never forget what is worth remembering; Or remember what is best forgotten. ~Unknown
37. Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. ~Epictetus
38. Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. ~Willa Cather
39. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow
40. Nonsense is that which does not fit into the pre-arranged patterns we have superimposed on reality... nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet formed the point of view from which it makes sense. ~The Dancing Wu Li Maseters
41. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin
42. One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you. ~Vernon Howard
43. Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ~Hans Margolius
44. Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ~Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
45. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~Dalai Lama
46. People only see what they are prepared to see. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. People who embrace challenge view life as a growth process and they see pressures and disruptions as experiences to learn. ~Unknown
48. Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne
49. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein
50. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ~Demosthenes
51. Some men see things as they are and ask, why? Others dream things that never were and ask, why not? ~George Bernard Shaw
52. Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It's a great enhancer. It might last a minute, or a month, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a greater space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believe that I grew, and further defined my capacities--not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience. ~Lance Armstrong
53. That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. ~Unknown
54. The appearance of things changes according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. ~Kahlil Gilbran
55. The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
56. The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. ~Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power
57. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. ~Helen Keller
58. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~Henri Bergson
59. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. ~Robert Fulghum
60. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ~Martha Washington
61. The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller
62. The place one’s in, though, doesn’t make any contribution to peace of mind: it’s the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself. ~Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
63. The Touch of the Master’s Hand
‘Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while, to waste much time on the old violin, but held it up with a smile.
“What am I bidden, good folks,” he cried, “Who’ll start the bidding for me?”
A dollar, a dollar,” then, two! Only two?” “Two dollars, and who’ll make it three?”
“Three dollars, once; three dollars twice; Going for three....” But no,
From the room, far back, a grey haired man came forward and pickup up the bow;
Then, wiping the dust from the old violin, and tightening the loose strings,
He played a melody pure and sweet as a carolling angel sings.
The music ceased, and the auctioneer, with a voice that was quiet and low,
Said: “What am I bid for the old violin?” And he held it up with the bow.
“A thousand dollars, and who’ll make it two? Two thousand! And who’ll make it three?
Three thousand, once; three thousand, twice; and going and gone,” said he.
The people cheered, but some of them cried, “We do not quite understand
What changed its worth?” Swift came the reply: “The touch of a master’s hand.”
And many a man with life out of tune, And battered and scarred with sin,
Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd, Much like the old violin.
A “mess of potage,” a glass of wine; A game —and he travels on.
He is “going” once, and “going” twice, he’s “going” and almost “gone.”
But the Master comes and the foolish crowd never can quite understand
The worth of a soul and the change that’s wrought. ~Myra B. Welch: By the touch of the Master’s hand
64. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
65. The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
66. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein
67. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ~William Shakespeare
68. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day. ~Matthew 6:34
69. Travelers have to be optimistic to think that by going onward, they're going to find something better. Pessimists stay at home. ~Unknown
70. We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. ~Epictetus, The Enchiridion
71. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~Kahlil Gibran
72. We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. ~Anais Nin
73. We don’t see things as they are; we see things as WE are. ~Anais Nin
74. We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. ~Maria Mitchell
75. We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. ~Unknown
76. What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
77. What God does first and best and most is to trust his people with their moment in history. He trusts them to do what must be done for the sake of the whole community. ~Walter Brueggeman
78. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
79. What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. ~Lao-tzu
80. What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces. ~Luis Villalobos
81. What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. ~C. S. Lewis
82. What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. ~Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
83. Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet. ~Marianne Williamson
84. When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith
85. Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief. ~Rev Cecil Williams
86. Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
87. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ~Ziggy