Quotes About Perspective

Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.

People who don't have a certain thing will tend to see it in one of two ways: as something that they absolutely must have or something that no one should ever have

The secret of life isn't an attempt to explain everything but, rather, to understand that certain things can't be explained. Demanding that everything is to be dissected neath a microscope is madness. Hence the attempt to explain everything is madness.

Unless you become a big picture thinker, you will always stay where you are.

Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.

At the end of things we turn into historians. Sometimes happy, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes regretful or bitter, sometimes to reassure ourselves that we have amounted to something, however small. And sometimes, as I am doing now, to try with the wisdom of hindsight to make sense of ourselves.

Unless you find yourself in a book, you have a hard time finding anybody else.

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

Could you imagine a world where everyone is 'Blind'? i'm thinking we all need to try and see the world from the view of a blind man... then and only then, will the color of ones skin be completely irrelevant..

We are all viewing the world through our own private lenses.

Because boys are boys, and books are books, and, in the end, it's best to have a little bit of both.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Death is a doorway to God. We celebrate Life and mourn Death....shouldn't we reverse it?

Just as there must be Black so that we can see White, the Creator has created Troubles so that we can Appreciate our Blessings.

We are nothing! When will we realize that the Earth itself is like one grain of sand on the vast beach of Creation?

We are searching for Life on the stars, but we haven't studied the flowers. While Life is right here, in you and me, we are looking for it on Mars!

A Wave will always remain a Wave unless it Realizes it is the Ocean!

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

any place you don't want to be is a prison.

Grief is what we add on to loss. It is a learned response, specific to some cultures only. It is not universal and it is not unavoidable. ... Grief is seeing only what has been taken away from you. The celebration of a life is recognizing all that we were blessed with, and feeling so very grateful.

Sir, if someone took a Buddhist holy book and flushed it down my toilet, the first thing I would do is call a plumber!