Quotes About Perspective

The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events—both yours and those of others—is to change the way you behold them. You cannot change the outer event (for that has been created by the lot of you, and you are not grown enough in your consciousness to alter individually that which has been created collectively), so you must change the inner experience. This is the road to mastery in living.

You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die—very not okay to be very okay with death.

Now look at these two words: REACTIVE CREATIVE Notice they are the same word. Only the "C" has been moved! When you "C" things correctly, you become Creative, rather than Reactive.

Whoa! Wait a minute! Are you trying to say that God gets frustrated? Who do you suppose invented frustration? And do you imagine that you can experience something I cannot?

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

My perspective will create my perception

What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.

there is great healing in acknowledging "mine is not a better way, mine is merely another way.

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

Time is a person-made concept.

We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we're, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And then we get told that having a little bit of this attitude is called balls, and that balls are good, and we kind of take it from there

I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here.

You can't see stars in New York. That's horrible. How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time?

I don't like to spend money. Every time I spend it, I feel as if I'm being raped.

I am a guy, I say. And I hate boys, she says. But a guy's different, I say. Maybe a little, she says.

Hold on a second. I can talk,' I say. 'Guys.' I look at all three of them in turn. 'One thing that they do in here is give you a lot of time to think. I can't explain it; once you come in, time just slows down-' 'Well, you don't have any interruptions, that's probably it-' 'Also I think the clocks are a little off-' I wave my hand. 'Point is, you have time to think about how you got here...

one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it.

Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis.

There are only things that could have turned out different. You don't have any should or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. [...] You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. You life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

Well, my dad died when I was three." Shoot. That's right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.

And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you.