Quotes About Perspective

Life and death played out before my very eyes. You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.

You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.

sometimes a kid has to act older than they are

A worldly wise and somewhat overbearing Lucy asks the good-hearted and somewhat naive Charlie Brown, 'Charlie, what would you rather do, be captain of the baseball team or marry the cute redheaded girl?' And Charlie replies innocently, 'Why can't I do both?' to which Lucy responds, 'It's the real world, Charlie Brown.' "60

A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

How can rape, murder, war, and illness be loving acts? [...] all events happen for the greater good, that nothing is accidental or without the capacity to spur our evolution as loving co-creators with God.

Today, be aware of the judgments you make. Whenever you catch yourself judging someone, imagine that you are breathing in their pain in the form of black smoke. Breathe your happiness back to them.

Psychiatrist and writer Jerry Jampolsky asks the question "Would you rather be happy or would you rather be right?" I've been working on choosing happiness for quite some time.

The tendency to judge people in an either/or way—enlightened or not, saint or sinner—makes it difficult to learn from the people we meet, whether or not we consider them "teachers." If we broaden our point of view to consider every person a potential teacher, every encounter will prompt the question "What can I learn from this person?

Don Juan says that we fail to see the world as it is because our energy field gets locked in by our sense of self-importance, what some philosophies refer to as our ego.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

People whose lives are not lived on the mountain peaks of the world commonly forget that the shallows have a beauty of their own.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.

Perhaps if my story were put in the proper perspective it might be one of many lonely years punctuated by attempts to find an outlet for all the love I've had to give. I had my blessed children to come home to, but they couldn't fill all of the void. When I tucked them into bed I'd wonder why it had turned out like this. Believe me, it was not self-pity, ever.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

I learned that the Italians are right. It isn't what happens to us that counts. It's what we do with what happens to us that makes all the difference

Humility does not necessarily require me to agree and comply with everyone else's position, but it does demand that I be willing to understand and respect the many sides of every issue.

The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us but to realize that nothing can ever completely satisfy us. And that's all right.

Regret claims to be insight. But how can it be spiritual insight to deny the good of what has been for the sake of what was not? No, regret is not insight. It is, in fact, the sand trap of the soul. It fails to understand that there are many ways to fullness of life, all of them different, all of them unique.

old ways of doing things. It is the ability to make ancient truth the living memory of today. Only the elderly have lived through both the good and the bad decisions of the past. It is they, then, who have the wisdom to alert us to alternatives, to evaluate present choices from the perspective of history. The role of

Nos, én azt vallom, hogy akár táncolunk, akár nem, bohócok vagyunk, úgyhogy ezzel az erÅ'vel akár táncolhatunk is.

Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind.

S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.