"People only see what they are prepared..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.”
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”
“The years in your lifeare less importantthan the life in your years.”
More on Perception
“It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.”
“Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.”
“No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John”