Quotes About Perspective

Those people who think the same thoughts every day, most of them negative, have fallen into bad mental habits. Rather than focusing on all the good in their lives and thinking of ways to make things even better, they are captives of their pasts.

The words you use determine the way you feel. The

What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life; life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic. —Osho

You can find your cause—your crusade—exactly where you are. No one has to leave a job to find something to engage their heart and excite them. Often all that is required is that a person see things differently. And to take that first step. Today.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet." It is so easy to magnify our problems and lose sight of the many blessings we all have to be so very grateful for. Giving the gift of your time by volunteering to serve those who have less than you is an excellent way to remind yourself on a regular basis of the abundance that exists in your life.

happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory. ROBIN SHARMA The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Kindle Location 642)

July 25 Suffering in life is really nothing more than the difference between the way things are and the way you imagine they should be. If you can come to accept the blessings of your present reality without always feeling that your life is hollow as compared to the lives of others, you will have taken a quantum leap toward becoming a happier, more peaceful person.

our days are nothing more than our lives in miniature.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts

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.' And

if we do our best, and things do not unfold according to our plans, trust that everything has happened for your highest good.

But the real key to remember is that happiness is a journey, not a destination.

happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.

The interesting thing about reflecting on your death is that it reawakens you to what's truest about life

because we don't know [when we will die], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.

It makes me think of what the writer Charles Bukowski said: 'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Comparison is the thief of joy

Health is the crown on the well man's head that only the ill man can see

When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions.

Vuestra percepción no es la realidad. Sencillamente, no lo es. Es solo vuestra idea actual de la realidad: haced el favor de recordarlo. Es simplemente la lente a través de la cual contempláis la realidad en un determinado momento de vuestra búsqueda de la excelencia.

It seemed to me that both Julian and Gao Ming had found something that most very rich people will never have: a feeling that they have enough.

there are three mirrors that form a person's reflection; the first is how you see yourself, the second is how others see you and the third mirror reflects the truth.