See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be


E. Lockhart

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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
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We see the world as it is; God sees the world, as what it could be.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we areor, as we are conditioned to see it.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
HERACLITUS
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
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... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
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Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wi...
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Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.
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As observers, it would be foolish not to see challenges.
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It is a lie.
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This is not a wish list, as some would call it. This is a needs list.
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I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
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Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
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Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
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A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
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Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
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The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
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Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
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How wild it was, to let it be.
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E E CUMMINGS
Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
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who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
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"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
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and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
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Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
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Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
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next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
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he sang his didn't he danced his did
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
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and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
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