Facebook share Tweet This Email this
To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
Related topics: Poems
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
- William Blake
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.
Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
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
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
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
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
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
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
Thank you for visiting: To see the world in a grain of sand, by William Blake.
Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.
Jonathan Huie jlh(at)jlhuie(dot)com - About & Disclosure