Quotes About Perspective

You'd best change your point of view. Stop blaming me and thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

you cannot change your past, but you can change your opinion of your past.

For example, one dad had a habit of saying, "I can't afford it." The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I ask, "How can I afford it?" One is a statement, and the other is a question. One lets you off the hook, and the other forces you to think.

As a person who has looked at the world from both the left and the right sides, I can honestly say the world looks much different depending on which side you are on.

Cynics criticize, and winners analyze" was another of his favorite sayings. Rich

they can't see the opportunity staring them in the face.

Money is an idea that is more clearly seen with your mind.

It blinds the person to what is really going on. It causes them to miss major opportunities for much more significant growth of their money.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs." ? Joseph Stalin

Viva ambiguity acknowledged unambiguously!

Our thinking has many sources.

If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.

The elderly will tell you that although their bodies have aged and their minds have changed, their witness is much the same as always. Even in old age, it remains a young upstart voice—detached, observant, occasionally rude. Whether ignored or embraced, the witness continues to whisper the truth to us as long as we live.

Live your life as if there are no miracles and everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself — And there isn't one. – Wei Wu Wei

I feel how little it concerns me, everything that's called the world, and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.

We don't need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.

Sevgili kardeÅŸim ÅŸu anda bir hiçsin. Fakat genç iken insan zaten bir hiç olmal? çünkü hiç bir ÅŸey erkenden anlam kazanmak kadar y?k?c? olamaz.

Gratitude is a way of seeing ourselves as recipients of blessings rather than demanders of rights.

Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.

So if meditation did liberate you from obedience to these feelings, it would be, in a certain sense, dispelling an illusion—the illusion you implicitly subscribe to when you follow the feeling, the illusion that the rage, and for that matter the revenge it inspires, is fundamentally "good." It turns out the feeling isn't even good in the basic sense of self-interest.

You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.

Hay títulos que uno ha evitado durante años y años, viéndolos reaparecer cada tanto. Llega un día en que, sin una razón aparente, nos aventuramos a comprar el libro. Finalmente uno lo abre y descubre que es del todo distinto de lo que habíamos pensado. O bien se constata que es como si ya lo hubiéramos leído -y entonces las razones para evitarlo eran incuestionablemente sólidas.