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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

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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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

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

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- 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

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow

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

Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle

If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho

When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand

When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

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