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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Showing posts with label Thomas Carlyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Carlyle. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Change is the Law of Life

 


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana

There are good and bad times,
but our mood changes
more often than our fortune.
- Thomas Carlyle

In times of change, learners inherit the earth;
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Further reading: Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

Another Wave Comes, Another Wave Goes

Endings and New Beginnings
      

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Seeing Beyond the Superficial

 


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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:

What You Focus On

What You See

Cultivate Awareness

Be a Passionate Observer

Manage Your Wayward Mind
    

Monday, February 12, 2024

Welcome Changing Seasons


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana

There are good and bad times,
but our mood changes
more often than our fortune.
- Thomas Carlyle

In times of change, learners inherit the earth;
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Further reading: Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

Another Wave Comes, Another Wave Goes

Endings and New Beginnings
      

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Seeing Deeply


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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:

What You Focus On

What You See

Cultivate Awareness

Be a Passionate Observer

Manage Your Wayward Mind
    

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Change is the Law of Life

 


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana

There are good and bad times,
but our mood changes
more often than our fortune.
- Thomas Carlyle

In times of change, learners inherit the earth;
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Further reading: Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

Another Wave Comes, Another Wave Goes

Endings and New Beginnings
      

Friday, June 10, 2022

The Art of Vision

 


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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:

What You Focus On

What You See

Cultivate Awareness

Be a Passionate Observer

Manage Your Wayward Mind
    

Sunday, June 20, 2021

True Vision

 


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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:

What You Focus On

What You See

Cultivate Awareness

Be a Passionate Observer

Manage Your Wayward Mind
    

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Look Deeper, Look Wider


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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading:

What You Focus On

What You See

Cultivate Awareness

Be a Passionate Observer

Manage Your Wayward Mind
    

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Embrace that the Seasons Change


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana

There are good and bad times,
but our mood changes
more often than our fortune.
- Thomas Carlyle

In times of change, learners inherit the earth;
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Further reading: Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

Another Wave Comes, Another Wave Goes

Endings and New Beginnings
      

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Beauty is Everywhere


Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume

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

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
- Conrad Hall

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

Further reading: Your Point of View

What You See

What We Perceive

Appreciate The Commonplace
    

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Practice the Art of Seeing


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

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

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

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Cultivate Awareness

What You Focus On

Manage Your Wayward Mind

What You See

Be a Passionate Observer
    

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Seeing Beauty (or not)


Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
- Conrad Hall

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

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


Further reading: What You See

The Commonplace

What We Perceive

Your Point of View
    

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Prepare to Encounter the Unexpected


Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift

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

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: What You Focus On

Cultivate Awareness

What You See

Managing Your Wayward Mind

Be a Passionate Observer
    

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

How We See Things


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

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

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

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The quality of life is in how we view it.
We see a miserable, evil, and threatening world
when we look through unhappy eyes.
We see a vibrant, exciting, and hopeful world through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: What You See

When You Have Been Wronged

Attitude is Everything

Your Point of View

Zero-Based Gratitude

Friday, September 20, 2013

Changing Seasons


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier
state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- George Santayana

There are good and bad times,
but our mood changes
more often than our fortune.
- Thomas Carlyle

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In times of change learners inherit the earth;
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: Another Wave Comes, Another Wave Goes

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

Endings and New Beginnings

Strength in Hard Times

Change

Is Life Really Hard?

Renewal



Friday, December 3, 2010

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


It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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


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