Quotes About Perspective

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

We have absolutely no control over what happens to us in life but what we have paramount control over is how we respond to those events.

The weakness of one man is the strength of another, hence we all are different for a reason.

sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.

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You know what I know, Mally. Now you must decide what to believe.

We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

We always try to remember that at the end of the day, it's just cookies. Don't stress that hard, because it's a terrible thing to take home with you.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?