Quotes About Perspective

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

Scorn ye not the little things, For life is made from them.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

Imagine standing in a room in a large museum. As you look around the dimly lit gallery, you begin to recognize shapes: a basket, an arrow, a beautifully decorated carving, a shield. Some of the objects are unrecognizable to you. What if these objects could speak? What would they tell you about themselves? How have they been used? Where did they come from? How did they get to this museum? Whom do they belong to?

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away.

the ease with which the big crises can wipe out the small ones that seemed so critical just a moment before. All of our small anxieties and trivial preoccupations evaporate with the sudden recognition of what really matters. We are reminded of the impermanence of much that we assume is forever and the value of so much we take for granted.

Countless things in our daily lives can awaken the almost constant state of wonder we knew as children. But sometimes to see them we must look through a different set of eyes.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.

Anyone with a smartphone and a full email in-box knows that it's easy to be busy while not being aware that we're actually living.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

Montaigne: "There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.

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one of the least discussed benefits (or miracles, really) of sleep: the way it allows us, once we return from our night's journey, to see the world anew, with fresh eyes and a reinvigorated spirit, to step out of time and come back to our lives restored.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say "so what." That's one of my favorite things to say. —ANDY WARHOL Some

we might as well live life as if -as the poet Rumi put it-everything is rigged in our favor

Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

the ideas and emotions people carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death.

When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.