When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajRead
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When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.
In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.
If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.
Look at the cherry blossoms!_x000D_ Their color and scent fall with them,_x000D_ Are gone forever,_x000D_ Yet mindless_x000D_ The spring comes again.
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
Evolution never looks to the future.
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There's always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today's forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the sheep guts.
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.
The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economists sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.
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