Quotes About Perspective

It is that I cannot see what I am doing or why, and it is unsettling always to live only in the moment as it passes. Oh, I know one never sees ahead or behind. But I see even less. It is like being blindfolded when everyone else in the room is not. No one can see outside the room – but everyone else can see the room. I would like to take my blindfold off.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered; it just is, like sunlight or mountains. It is for human beings to see the shadows behind the light, and the light behind the shadows. It is, perhaps, why dogs have people, and people have dogs.

And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

I'd learned to fish because Mel taught me, not because I longed to impale small invertebrates on barbed hooks and rip hell out of piscine oral cavities and smother fellow oxygen breathers in an alien medium

when you are happy, when you have never been happy before, when you hadn't even known you weren't happy, it is hard to believe that it won't all go away again, isn't it?

I didn't feel like reading: I didn't feel like looking at other people's imaginary lives in flat black and white from out here in my only too unimaginably life.

Totul se întâmpl? într-un anumit context, chiar ÅŸi felul în care iubim

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

The richest person in the world, I've since discovered, isn't the person who has the most but the one who needs the least.

quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

Whether you think something is possible or impossible, you'll most certainly be right. Because your belief determines your behavior.

No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions. This is one of the greatest of all the natural laws.

You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own. Stop feeding what doesn't serve you.

And no matter what you are experiencing in your life right now, trust that all is good and unfolding in your best interests. It may not look pretty, but it is exactly what you need to learn for you to grow into the person you have been destined to become.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.

No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions.

It is so easy to magnify our problems and lose sight of the many blessings we all have to be so very grateful for.

When we are young we sacrifice our health for wealth. But when we become old and wise, we become willing to sacrifice every bit of our wealth for just a day of good health.

If you focus on good, you will excel and reach higher planes. if you dwell on the negative aspects of life, you will get nowhere fast.

There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience

What a life! All that money and all I could eat was bread and water.

Most people are always running toward this fantasyland that they think will solve all their problems and fill them up with joy. They tell themselves, 'Once I achieve this or that, I'll be happy.' But I believe that happiness isn't a place you get to—it's an inner state you create. Anyone can be happy—it's available to everyone and is available right now. We just need to stop and pay more attention to the treasures that already surround us.

Your vocabulary drives meaning in your life.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones