Quotes About Perspective

It was men like that, she decided, that made her eternally grateful to be a woman! She didn't know why Harlan was so obsessed with discovering primitive man. All he had to do was look about him: In Sophie's estimation, mankind had not progressed very far!

Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls!

Oh, for fuck's sake; sometimes a raccoon is just a raccoon!

sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

He used to think things like, This organic soymilk will make me healthy and that'll make my brain work better and that'll improve my writing . Also things like, The less I eat the less money I spend on publicly owned companies the less pain and suffering will exist in the world . Now he thinks things like, It is impossible to be happy . Why would anyone think that?

I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked." "Wow, so selfless," Mark said. "You're a saint. I commend your selflessness. Amazing.

sad things are beautiful only from a distance

For one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like a grain of sand on the beach seeking enlightenment from another.

Sick with the impossibility of it all, with the reality of how small a person is. How at any second you can get struck down by a bullet or a tree; how a person can look so very tiny against the world, how each of us is nothing more than a speck

To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.

We let the schema define our experience.

The ability to bring a lightheartedness and humor to our schemas is a powerful way to reframe these weighty thoughts.

This would explain how our schemas shape so powerfully the way things seem, almost as though they cast a spell over us.

It is not things themselves that trouble us," wrote Epictetus, a first-century Greek philosopher, "but our thoughts about those things.

A pithy Zen aphorism goes like this: To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.

A mental state can last for but a moment, until another state rises to the top of the mind's hierarchy, or it can become a habitual frame of mind.

When we see our lives as only a small part of a greater web, our perspective changes dramatically.

She would remind herself that in reality she was safe despite her fears, or that her hyperventilating was only a sign of temporary anxiety, not a sign that she would suffocate.

And with this loosening of our usual identifications, we become less defined by our reactions as we widen the scope of who we think we are.

These emotional habits operate as powerful lenses on our reality, leading us to mistake how things seem for how they actually are.

We can't understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience.

Thoreau writes, "Is there a greater miracle than to see through another's eyes, even for an instant?

Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We