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Welcome to these Overlook Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Philanthropy is commendable,
but it must not cause the philanthropist
to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice
which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Rainbows and butterflies are themselves beautiful and highly symbolic,
but they are also representative of
all the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
- Bartholomew
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
- Lao Tzu
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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