Quotes About Perspective

They Laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at them because they all are the same.

He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.

I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was, that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick. what could it do? One of his hearers sharply answered, "If I abuse your God, what can He do?" "You would be punished," said the preacher, "when you die." "So my idol will punish you when you die," retorted the Hindu.

t is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us Our thoughts make things beautiful Our thoughts make things ugly The whole world is in our own minds Learn to see things in the proper light

T ruth can be stated in a thousand different ways Yet each one can be true

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience.

Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways.

We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it's either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.

In that dark chamber of my heart, where I confuse being right with being loved....

It's like resenting a mountain. From the very beginning they were closer. It was part of the unquestioned landscape of my childhood.

We're an odd match. Imagine Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson; imagine night and day. George has built nuclear reactors and believes in them fiercely. We stay away from this and other subjects the way I'd stay away from Three Mile Island. After all, I have plenty of friends who share my most impassioned opinions; we can have an orgy of agreement any day at the natural foods restaurant, over a sprout sandwich. But he's the one out here helping.

For what are most of our stories but cartoon versions of the past? Our personal history is the well-worn version of ourselves we've settled for, in which we come across as pitiful stick figures, "bored to death with ourselves and with the world," as don Juan said.

His brother and sister were the dearest people, but dreadfully good; they thought everything wrong. - William Price describing Fanny and Edmund to Georgiana Darcy

To remain monolingual reduces the mind to the confines of a tramline.

Im my native country I successfully avoided seeing the Grand Canyon; I avoided the Painted Desert, my nurse did not manage to drag me to Niagara. With all respect to Alexander von Humboldt, I will not get myself off this contraption to look at a tree however interesting.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.