Quotes About Perspective

Heaven on Earth Is a State, Not a Place.

The world, and that includes my inner world, is a very special place.

it. No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to 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." "Really?" "Really. A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes on a life of its own.

If there is a lack in your life, it is because there is a lack in your thoughts.

That's a fair way to look at it. 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.

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote, 'Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.

Also on my desk is a copy of Seneca's Letters from a Stoic, a truly priceless work, which was purchased by my dad for $1.95).

To dramatically improve the quality of your life, you must cultivate a new perspective of why you are here on Earth.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in a moonlit sky or soaking in the the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning. And India is such an intellectually stimulating place that I rarely thought of all I had left.

If a brother or sister of our big family that inhabits this tiny planet seeks to condemn me or mock me or downgrade their impression of me on learning of my frailties and faults, then, well, that's just fine with me. Actually, their behavior is on them. It really has zero to do with me. None of my business.

Understand the anatomy of fear. It is your own creation. Most of the things we are afraid of never even happen. So why let your fears own your life?

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. Know

Cuando consigas arraigar el hábito de buscar lo positivo en cada circunstancia, tu vida pasará a sus dimensiones superiores. Es una de las más importantes leyes naturales.

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

no experience, whether it is public speaking or asking your boss for a raise or swimming in a sun-soaked lake or walking along the beach on a moonlit night, is inherently painful or pleasant. It is your thinking that makes it so.

Our culture tells us to pursue titles and trinkets, applause and acclaim, money and mansions. All that's fine—it truly is—so long as you don't get brainwashed into defining your worth as a human being by these things. Enjoy them, just don't get attached to them. Have them, just don't base your identity around them. Appreciate them, just don't need them.

A baby could be trained to view a glorious sunny day as depressing. A child could be trained to see a puppy as a vicious animal. An adult could be trained to see a drug as a pleasant vehicle for release. It's all a matter of conditioning, isn't it?

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

Using this little-known information, anyone can easily create a positive, creative mindset within a short period. The process is straightforward: when an undesirable thought occupies the focal point of your mind, immediately replace it with an uplifting one. It's as if your mind is a giant slide projector, with every thought in your mind being a slide. Whenever a negative slide comes up on the screen, take swift action to replace it with a positive one.

we see the world through a filter that's made up of all our personal programming. And we run the program so much we get brainwashed into believing that the way we are seeing the world is real, right?

So it's like that old adage about seeing the cup as half full rather than half empty?" "That's a fair way to look at it. 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.

we spend too much time focusing on the "crust of life" rather than on all the good things that flow in and out of our days.