Quotes About Perspective

The kingdom of happiness is in your thought and feeling.

If you think good, good will follow; if you think evil, evil will follow.

The law of life is the law of belief.

Una persona es lo que piensa todo el día.

Truly, you are as old as you think and feel.

The suggestions of others in themselves have absolutely no power whatever over you except the power that you give them through your own thoughts. You have to give your mental consent; you have to entertain the thought.

The law of your mind is the law of belief.

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The American essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Man is what he thinks all day long.

The law of life is the law of belief, and belief could be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind.

La verdad es que la felicidad es un estado mental y espiritual

Una persona es una creencia expresada.

If you take a bigger perspective, letting them come and go, they don't hold such power over you.

Whenever I have come up with something I can call a problem, it triggers a reaction in my mind that says, "Where's the opportunity?

I learned from this episode that a person can totally disagree with another opinion without feeling that the other opinion has to be silenced. Confidence in your idea means that you don't have to make other people wrong for you to be right. Unfortunately, there are many people, among them many religious people, who don't have this attitude.

We all understand in theory that we should be able to love and respect those with whom we disagree, but few of us can do so. Often, people end up concluding that there is something deficient either in the intelligence or character of those with whom they disagree. Quite characteristically, this is what liberals and conservatives commonly think of each other, that their opponent has something wrong either with his head or his heart.

The very best, most optimistic hope we can cling to is that we're tic birds who ride the rhino's back and eat the parasites out of the flesh and keep the beast from disease and hope we're not parasites too. In the end we suspect it's all vanity and delusion. Parasites, all of us." "Yeah

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life for all eternity. Occasionally, little bubbles of memory will float up like surreal Mylar party balloons at unexpected times throughout the net day and start piecing together a colorful, if incomplete, version of reality.

once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

Gay men know that the way to a woman's heart is through her son.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.