Quotes About Perspective

He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.

those doughnuts are a lot better than having a mule kick you in the head, There was no argument there.

to remove a book from the period of its birth is like lifting a stone from a stream and watching it lose its luster in the palm of your hand.

Invece di avere soltanto qualche chilometro e talvolta soltanto pochi centimetri tra un problema e l'altro, perché non incrementare la distanza? Sarebbe bello una volta tanto avere 47 chilometri tra un problema e l'altro e magari in 47 chilometri un po' di pace potrebbe spuntare come una giunchiglia in mezzo ai miei problemi.

He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Jack had some kind of idea that it was all wrong for a car to have a house.

If you listen repeatedly to religious speech, after enough repetitions you will actually begin to notice God and His works where there was just chaotic life going on before. What was formerly chance becomes a miracle. What was pain is now karma. What was human nature is now sin. And regardless of whether these religious memes are presented as Truth or as allegorical mythology, you're conditioned just the same.

From now on, every time you are about to say "I can't," think about what you really mean. Often it's a "polite" way of saying that something is simply not important enough to you right now, given your priorities.

If you find yourself regretting or resenting the past, or dwelling on it—is that the best choice as to how to be expending your energy right now? How about taking the point of view that you made the best choices you could make at the time, and turning your attention to the present?

Only take advice from people with lives you like.

When you take time , often to reflect on the miracle of life - the miracle that you are even able to read this book - the gift of sight ,of love and all the rest , it can hep to remind you that many of the things that you think as big stuff are really just small stuff that you are turning into big tuff

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

There are two rules for living in harmony. #1) Don't sweat the small stuff and #2) It's all small

The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

Do not sweat the small stuff.

You'll also notice that, as you reach out and let others be "right," they will become less defensive and more loving toward you.

Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that "Wherever you go, there you are.

its helpful to step back and see the bigger picture

It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past.

we tend to focus on the annoying expectation

Praise and blame are all the same is a fancy way of reminding yourself of the old cliché that you'll never be able to please all the people all the time. Even in a landslide election victory in which a candidate secures 55 percent of the vote, he or she is left with 45 percent of the population that wishes someone else were the winner. Pretty humbling, isn't it?

If you don't want to "sweat the small stuff," it's critical that you choose your battles wisely.