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I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
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Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In my prayers I never said I needed a home.
I said I wanted a sanctuary.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work
without having to talk
because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
- Albert Schweitzer
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 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
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- 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
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
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
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- 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
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 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
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
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
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
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
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 more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
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
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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