"Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do."
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"The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us."
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"There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry."
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"I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?"
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"I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love."
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"I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God."
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"You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is."
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"When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it."
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"And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them."
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"People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are."
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"Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!"
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"We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves."
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"We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms."
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"So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face."
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"Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria."
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"I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive."
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"They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present."
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"The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing."
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"We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion."
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"Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age."
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