Quotes About Perspective

Chinese define image in these terms: 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.

cuando estés a las puertas de la muerte seguro que no desearás haber pasado más tiempo en la oficina

Someone has well said, "Success is a journey, not a destination." Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all its trials and troubles and perhaps more interesting because of them. Robert R. Updegraff

No existe lo que llamamos realidad objetiva o «mundo real». No existen los absolutos. El rostro de tu peor enemigo puede ser el de mi mejor amigo. Algo que parece una tragedia para alguien puede contener la semilla de una magnífica oportunidad para otro. Lo que separa de veras a las personas alegres u optimistas de las que están sumidas en la desdicha es la forma de interpretar y procesar las circunstancias de la vida.

A society of adults behaving like spoiled little children is how I sometimes see our world right now.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." —Friedrich Nietzsche

Good health is a crown on the head of a well person that only a sick person can see.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

When you are born, you cried while others laughed around you, likewise make others cry when you are dead.

We take life so seriously. But at the end, the billionaire gets buried next to the street sweeper.

Is there a wiser, more enlightened way to look at this seemingly negative situation.

Ikviens cilv?ks savas redzeslauka robežas pie?em par pasaules robež?m.

A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul

Fiecare secunda pe care o petreci gandindu-te la visele altcuiva este timp rapit propriilor tale vise.

Your perception isn't reality. It just isn't. It's just your current perception on reality.

La comparación es el ladrón de la felicidad» —contestó el millonario—. Siempre hay alguien que tiene más fortuna, más fama o más cosas que tú.

My many years of conservative legal world, doing the same things every day with the same people who thought the same thoughts every day had filled my cup to the brim. My wife Jenny was always telling me that we should be meeting new people and exploring new things.

The words you use determine the way you perceive reality. If you call a stumbling block a "problem" or "a big mess", you will create a different emotional state within you than if you call the issue "an opportunity" or "a challenge that will only make me better".

A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul

A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy.

Why the loft? Why only there, and only then? Now Ã¢â'¬â€œ today Ã¢â'¬â€œ I think it was because I was happy. I didn't think that then. I couldn't have. I didn't know I was happy and I didn't know that happiness was finite.