Quotes About Perspective

The lesson which life constantly repeats is to 'look under your feet.' You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars. Every place is the center of the world.

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)

When people point fingers at someone else, they should remember that three fingers are pointing back at them.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

Happiness is an inside job.

War is fundamental. A man's views on war tell you the basic axioms of his view on life.

We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

My mom once told me, back when I was a kid, that I would never understand girls unless I understood the fear of being lonely and alone. She said no girl would ever understand boys unless she understood the fear of being dishonored and defeated.

una filosofia sembra sempre un fatto a chi ci crede.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.

Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.

While he rested, she asked, 'What's the difference between natives and outsiders?' 'Natives,' he replied, 'eat indoors and shit outdoors, outsiders eat outdoors and shit indoors.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

In the dark, all cats are black.

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

for we see Abraham the readier to acknowledge himself but dust and ashes the nearer he approaches to behold the glory of the Lord