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Meaningful Quotes Worth Reading Twice

90% of corporate life is feigning it. That’s what happens when you’ve sold your soul, exist to get the next paycheck and your job becomes ‘not to get fired’. Pretend you’re interested, show up to the meetings and hopefully find meaning elsewhere in your life. A better solution is to find meaning in everything you do, every day, even if it means a pay cut. – Hugh Macleod

Don’t look for the meanings. Look for the use. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle. – Jigaro Kano, founder of modern Judo

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle

I can bear my pain as long as it has meaning. – Haruki Murakami

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami

It’s not the circumstances and events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to our circumstances and to events, how we interpret them, that shapes who we are today and who we’ll become tomorrow. Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. – Tony Robbins

It’s precisely the disappointing stories which have no proper ending and, therefore, have no proper meaning, that sound true to life. – Max Frisch

Man cannot stand a meaningless life. – Carl Jung

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
– Stephen Hawking

The meaning of life is to go back to sleep and hope that tomorrow will be a better day. –  Charles Schulz

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of a good cause. – Albert Einstein

To have a meaningful life, you have to do something meaningful. Meaning it doesn’t happen on autopilot. – Hugh Macleod

Vision is the course one follows to make dreams reality. Vision strengthens us to be committed.  Vision gives significance to the otherwise meaningless details of our lives. – Andy Stanley

We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. – William Zinsser

We die. That may be the meaning of life. – Toni Morrison

We remember experiences which have a personal meaning for us, even if the meaning is a pure construction of the mind. The mind remembers what the mind does, not what the world does. – James Jenkins

Women who can only give all or nothing don’t know the meaning of pleasure. – Colette

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. – Richard Feynman

You don’t know what love is, until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues. Until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose, you don’t know what love is. – Don Raye / Gene Depaul

Learn & Teach Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. – Bruce Lee

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life. – David Burns

Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia

Each day, we must learn again how to love. –  Barbara Crooker

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. – Albert Einstein

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. – Benjamin Franklin

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking. – Stephen Hawking

Go ahead, want it all. Just learn to be happy before it arrives, or you may not notice when it does. – Mike Dooley

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones, through practice. – Dr. Wayne Dyer

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

I firmly believe that love (of a subject or hobby) is a better teacher than a sense of duty. At least for me. – Albert Einstein  

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teachings of my soul. – Rumi

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao Tzu

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

I have now made a habit of being prepared in all affairs of life for the worst. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Yet not one of all my acquaintances could say that in my company I am morose or disgruntled. For this blessing I daily thank my creator. – Johann Amadeus Mozart

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. – Richard P. Feynman

I would teach children music, physics and philosophy, but most importantly music because the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning. – Plato

If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me. – Doug Boyd

If life is viewed as a teacher, then it becomes just that. – David Hawkins

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. – George Bernard Shaw

If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some talking head on television to do your shit, then you deserve it. – Frank Zappa

If you learn from defeat you haven’t really lost. – Zig Ziglar

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. – Buckminster Fuller

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

In the true sense of the word, are we using what we’ve learned? In the true sense of the word, are we losing what we were? – Jack Johnson

It is better to know how to learn, than to know. – Theodor Geisel

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here. – James Baldwin

It’s important to live life with the experience, and therefore the knowledge, of its mystery and of your own mystery. This gives life a new radiance, a new harmony, a new splendor … You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. – Joseph Campbell

I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. – Maya Angelou

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. – William Stafford

Learn rules like a pro. So you can break them like an artist. – Pablo Picasso

Learn to breathe deeply. Really taste food when you eat. When you sleep, really sleep. Be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Be alive. You will be dead soon enough. – Ernest Hemingway

Learn to focus your decisions on your needs, not theirs. – Cialdini

Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does. – Epictetus

Learning is critical to your success, but who you learn from makes all the difference in the world! – Kita Forever

Learning without thinking is labor lost. Thinking without learning is perilous. – Confucius

Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as you were to live forever. – Gandhi

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. – Betrand Russel

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. – Heraclitus

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view. – H. Fred Ale

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. – Nelson Mandela

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you. – Richard Feynman

Once you learn how to learn, you have only to discover what is worth learning. – Austin Kleon

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. – Peter Drucker

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill

See, there’s bravery in this world. There’s 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death. But every breath we breathe has to be given back. A 9-year-old boy taught me that. – Shane Koyczan

Stop wasting time playing a role or concept. Instead, learn to actualize yourself, your potential. – Bruce Lee

‎Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. The person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. – Plato

Success is easy. All you have to do is learn how to use your career the same way Hendrix used his guitar. – Hugh Macleod

Talking a lot about something that bothers you is a pretty good sign you’ve got something huge and profoundly liberating to learn. – Mike Dooley

The doer alone learneth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin Toffler

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The minute you learn how to give is the minute you become successful. – Hugh Macleod

The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. – Galileo Galilei

The whole course of things is to teach us faith. – Emerson

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. – Leonardo da Vinci

There are a number of very important irreversibles to be discovered in our universe. One of them is that every time you make an experiment you learn more. Quite literally, you cannot learn less. – Buckminster Fuller

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Berlioz

Unlearning is the highest form of learning. – Rumi

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. – Stephen Covey

We all learn as much as we wish to and no more. We learn in different ways, sometimes by not learning. My way is by trial and error, by groping, stumbling, questioning. – Henry Miller

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all. – Paul Simon

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. – Leonardo Da Vino

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to find it within himself. – Galileo Galilei

You don’t learn so that you can then do. That’s an anxiety reaction and an avoidance behavior. You learn by doing, or I solemnly declare, you’ll never learn at all, or worse, you’ll abandon your calling altogether. – Nick Murray

You have to learn to ignore your fear. Without the will to believe in yourself, nothing good can happen.- Hilma af Klint

You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. That’s just how it is. It’s like learning an instrument. You’ve got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot. That’s just part of the learning process. – J.K. Rowling

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. – Rumi

You will learn more in ten days of agony than in ten years of contentment. Pain can be your greatest teacher. – Debbie Ford

You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. – Nina Simone

Play Quotes Worth Reading Twice

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. – Tom Robbins

I don’t think of work as work and of play as play. It’s all living. – Richard Branson

If music be the food of love, play on, play on, play on! – Shakespeare

In my house I have put together a collection of small and large toys I can’t live without. The child who doesn’t play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and he will certainly miss him. I have also built my house like a toy house, and I play in it from morning till night. – Pablo Neruda

It goes without saying that as soon as one cherishes the thought of winning the contest or displaying one’s skill in technique, swordsmanship is doomed. – Takano Shigiyoshi

Life isn’t as long as you think it is. You have a choice. You can go and try to live a playful life, or you can go and live a life which excludes playfulness. And it doesn’t get you anywhere. Playfulness gets you somewhere. – Hans Zimmer

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. – Heraclitus

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved, he is at play or leisure. – Marshall McLuhan

Manage the top line – the strategy, the people, the product – and the bottomline will follow. You want a team in which players keep each other’s negative tendencies in check and balance each other – a team where the total is greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people. – Steven Jobs

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron (Hall of Fame baseball player)

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward. – Frédéric Chopin

Stop wasting time playing a role or concept. Instead, learn to actualize yourself, your potential. – Bruce Lee

The failure to understand the significance of play in maturing human beings has had incalculable consequences, because play is not only crucial to learning but, unlike other drives, is its own reward. – Edward Hall

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. – James Michener

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. – Arnold Toynbee

There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela

We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. – G.B. Shaw

We expect kids to sit for hours and do what they are told, and if they can’t, we don’t kindly say, I see you are restless. Get up and play. Rather it is, Better get tested for ADHD and the potential to be put on drugs. – Peter Gray

Work begins when you don’t like what you’re doing. And if your life isn’t play, or if you are engaged in play and having no fun, well, quit! The spirit of the sacred space is Śiva dancing. All responsibilities are cast off. There are various ways of doing this casting off. and it doesn’t matter how it happens. The rest is play. – Joseph Campbell

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato

You won’t amount to much, the people all said ’cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head. – Bob Dylan

God Quotes Worth Reading Twice

About the worst thing you can say about god is that he is an underachiever… How can I believe in god when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?… If only god would give me some clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. – Woody Allen

All I want to do is learn to think how god thinks… Before god we are all equally wise and foolish… My comprehension of god comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world. – Albert Einstein

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, god is not looking for alms, god is looking for action. – Bono

Atheist: Any or every man who does not believe in the god of the priest. – Voltaire

God: Etymology and usage. General conceptions. Oneness. Theism, deism, and pantheism. Other concepts. Non-theistic views. Agnosticism and atheism. Anthropomorphism. Existence. Specific attributes. Names. Gender. Relationship with creation. Depiction. Zoroastrianism. Judaism. Christianity. Islam. Baháʼí Faith. Theological approaches. See also. References. Bibliography. External links. – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

God has no other hands than ours – George Bernanos

God has no religion. – Mahatma Gandhi 

God is a verb. – Buckminster Fuller

God is not a Christian. – Desmond Tutu

God says to the soul, I am the noise of water, rain coming. – Rumi

I believe in god who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists… I cannot imagine a god who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation. – Albert Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei

I have only made but one prayer in my life: O lord, make my enemies ridiculous, and god granted it… If god did not exist, he’d have to be invented… If god made us in his image, we have certainly returned the compliment. – Voltaire

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which god speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in. – George Washington Carver

If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that god will not tie my shoes without me. – Doug Boyd

It is good that god kept the truths of life from the young as they were just starting out or else, they’d have no heart to start at all… There is no god and we are his prophets. – Cormac McCarthy

It was easy to love god in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace god in all things. – Francis of Assisi

Mathematics is the alphabet in which god wrote the universe. – Galileo

My profession is to always find god in nature. – Henri David Thoreau

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto god the things that are god’s. – Word Masters

Slipping on my shoes, boiling water, toasting bread, buttering the sky, that should be enough contact with god in one day to make anyone crazy. – Hafiz

There are people in the world so hungry god cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. – Mahatma Gandhi

There is no god. – Stephen Hawking

Very great is the ineptitude of those who would like god to make the universe more proportionate to the small capacity of their speech. – Galileo

You can safely assume you’ve created god in your own image when it turns out that god hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott

See-Look Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A person can look at pointing in reverse, that is, from fingertip to wrist. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl

After an hour or so in the woods looking for mushrooms, Dad said, “Well, we can always go and buy some real ones.” – John Cage

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

And those who are seen dancing are thought to be insane by those who cannot hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Are you pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed up film? If you wonder what the hell is wrong with the projector, go up to the control room. You’ll find it’s empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time. – Colin Wilson

Art is not what you see but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas

As a rule, out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. – Julius Cesar

Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Believe it, you’ll see it. Know it, you’ll be it! – Wayne Dyer

Caring about how you look must start in your heart and soul. Beauty products on their own won’t help. – Coco Chanel

Divide and rule, the politician cries. Unite and lead, is the watchword of the wise. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Do not seek the coward’s explanation who seeks to hide behind the causes and effects. – Leonard Cohen

Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got, till it’s gone? – Joni Mitchell

Don’t think: Look. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius

Every time I hear a fire engine it seems like the trucks are running away from the fire. Not towards it. – Laurie Anderson

Everything we hear is an option, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. – Seth Godin

Great men are they who see that spiritual thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

How you see yourself is the way you’ll end up being. – Kenneth Cole

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers

I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. Such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. – Albert Einstein    

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. – Stephen Hawking

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. – Frank Lloyd Wright

I see no dividing line between imagination and reality. – Federico Fellini

I seem to be a verb. – Buckminster Fuller

I want people to see a flower whether they want to or not. – Georgia O’Keeffe

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo

If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha

If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. – Jim Barksdale

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path. – Joseph Campbell

If you look for the bad in people, you will be sure to find it. – Abraham Lincoln

If you see 10 worries coming down to road, you can be sure 9 will chicken out before they reach you. – Calvin Coolidge

In art and in business, you need one eye looking in and one eye looking out. People who do only one usually fail at both. – Hugh Macleod

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot…for he sees what no one else does. Things that, to everyone else, are not there. – Marshall McLuhan

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different? – C.S. Lewis

It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there all speckled with stars and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim, he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened. I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon coulda laid them. Well, that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn’t say nothing against it because I’ve seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they’d got spoiled and was hove out of the nest. – Mark Twain (in Huckleberry Finn)

It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

Keeping a diary is like to look into yourself. – Paul Claudel

Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth… the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. – M. Scott Peck

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shining. – Anne Lamott

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

Looking for a helping hand? Look at the end of your arm. – Tony Robbins

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer. – Naasim Haramein

Not so much to see what no-one has seen yet, but to think what nobody has thought yet, about that which everybody sees. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. Others seem to be bothering you, but it is not the others, it is your own mind. – Ravi Shankar

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment. – Marshall McLuhan

One only sees what one looks for. One only looks for what one knows… Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – Socrates

Take the first step in faith you don’t have to see the whole staircase just take the first step – Martin Luther King Jr

Technology is like a mirror. If an idiot looks in you cannot expect an apostle to look out. – Stephen Fry

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart. – Helen Keller

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it. The more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make. – Mark Twain

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. – Amanda Gorman

The question is not what you look at but what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

The terror is all promises are kept. Even happiness. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. – Rumi

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton 

The world changes according to the way people see it. If you alter, even but a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it. – James Baldwin

The world we live in is a world of opposites. The trick is to reconcile those opposing things. To appreciate one, you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too. – David Lynch

“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. “I do,” Alice hastily replied. “At least – at least I mean what oil say – that’s the same thing you know.” “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “Why, you might just as well say ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see.’” – Lewis Carroll

There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different. They are the agents of the status quo. – Stephen King

There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see. And to see we have only to look. – Fra Giovanni

Those who wear clothes look to the launderer. – Rumi

To hit a target, you must see it, clearly. – Mary Kay Ash

To see an aquarium, better not be a fish. – André Malraux

To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. – Claude Monet

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character , it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu

We do not believe what we see, we see what we believe. – Brian Tracy

We do not see things as they are, but as we are. – Immanuel Kant

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes, or rather, we’ve seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot. Our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers. – Max Frisch

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. – Marshall McLuhan

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict. – Paul Claudel

What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me. – Henry Miller

What you seek, is seeking you. – Rumi

When I despair, I remember all though history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. – Gandhi

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. – Antonio Porchia

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all. – Paul Simon

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news. my mother would say to me, look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers, so many caring people in this world. – Fred Rogers

When one door closes another door opens. But we do often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

When you look at my sculptures, there is no doubt it’s a sculpture. It is not a woman. – Allen Jones

When you see a difference between the guidebook and the bird, believe the bird. – Tara Brach

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. So, let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing, that’s what counts. – Richard Feynman

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. – Carl Jung

You will never outgrow your self-image. – Maxwell Maltz

Begin Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. – Euripides

Amazement is the beginning of all knowledge. – Polo Hofer

Changing an organization, company, country, or world begins with the simple step of changing yourself. – Tony Robbins

Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. – Napoleon Hill

Everyone has the same objective. To end up with more dough than they start with a minimum of risk. – Warren Buffet

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life. – Tony Dorsett

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. – Henry Ford

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. –  Mahatma Gandhi

If the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning to be a beginner. – Rainer Maria Rilke

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Imagine being sound asleep when you are suddenly awakened by the fire alarm. Startled, you jump out of bed, run to the closet, and take out a baseball bat. You smash the alarm into smithereens until it stops ringing. But then, instead of looking for the fire, you put the bat back in the closet, crawl back to bed, and go to sleep. – Sri Swami Satchidananda

In dreams begin responsibilities. – W.B. Yeats

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few. – Shunryu Suzuki

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Maturity starts with the realization that no-one is coming to the rescue. – Brian Tracy 

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life. – Miles Davis

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening. – John Cage

No task is a long one but the task on which one dares not start. It becomes a nightmare. – Charles Baudelaire

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C. S. Lewis

The beginning is half of the whole. – Aristotle

The fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace, and peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

The only purpose of starting is to finish. – Seth Godin

The rules are simple: start on dry land, finish on dry land. – Mike Read, king of the English Channel

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. – Mark Twain

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age? – Warren Buffet

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. – William Hutchinson Murray (The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951)

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When I begin my work in the morning, I expect to have a successful and pleasant day of it. – Booker T. Washington

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. – Abraham Maslow

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. – Socrates

Work begins when you don’t like what you’re doing. The rest is play. – Joseph Campbell

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. – Chuck Carlson

You can’t fail if you don’t quit. You can’t succeed if you don’t start. – Michael Hyatt

You don’t have to find out you’re dying to start living. – Zach Sobiech

Normal Quotes Worth Reading Twice

At times it feels normal to you. But there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it, and then more change. – Meryl Streep

From my disinherited mother I learned to stay alive by dreaming myself into existence. From her, I learned that everything is real. It was a lesson of enormous value to me. – Jamake Highwater

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter. – Paulo Coelho

I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life. – Jack Nicholson

In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence, bliss, and the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation… The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock. – David Lynch

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. – Whoopi Goldberg

Blame Quotes Worth Reading Twice

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. – Wayne Dyer

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. – Buddha

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours, it is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. – Bob Moawad

The best way to forgive is not to blame. – Mike Dooley

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances. – Stephen Covey

When one is deprived of one’s liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him but did not use it. – Thucydides