One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C. N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect. , but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good
A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.
Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.