Quotes About Perspective

Master the power of attitude and you'll live a powerful life.

Most of us are confused about what is real.

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

we can suffer economic loss and see it as an opportunity for a spiritual transformation.

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb.

One of my clients told me the story of the optimist and the pessimist who were arguing about philosophy. The optimist declares,"This is the best of all possible worlds." The pessimist sighs and says, "You're right.

When is the 'look out the windshield phase' of driving? Pretty much all driving is looking out the windshield! It's not a phase. Saying 'testing takes too long' is a bit like saying 'safe driving takes too long.

They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!" "What do you mean 'evil'?" Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she said, after a moment, "unfriendly to people." "People!" repeated Morgana derisively. "As if humans were all that mattered. Just once I'd like to see people judged by how friendly they are to sorceresses.

Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.

Every generation has tended to look on the past with an air of condescension. I call it history snobbery, and your generation is smitten with one of the worst cases ever.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

Psalms 90:4: "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

Peter 3:8: "Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Decidedly, the stories that turn the tribes tragic are not their own stories.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Reality and 'what should be' are two brothers who live very far apart.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.