Quotes About Perspective

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: This is for my benefit.

Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

In the eyes, heart, and mind of the one you love and who you want to love you, you will become, in essence, a new person.

Once you look at your problems as workout situations, they take on a whole new aspect.

If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.

An event is just an event. How you respond to the event determines its outcome in your life.

If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.

By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.

As long as you treat seemingly bad things as though they are truly bad, you give them the power to be bad.

as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else. -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

High? Low. Just like the old days. If you say so.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness...

Real life is a story too, only much more complicated...the world is a library and you'll never get to read the same book twice.

Realist ist heute, wer auf dem Boden der Tatsachen steht - ein Boden, der in den Plänen dieser gleichen Realisten bereits verseucht ist.

our journey toward truth is often a winding and convoluted path and what we find at the end is not always the truth we expected at the beginning of the journey.

Biblicism, I have said, is impossible. But there are other approaches—including outright liberalism—that I think are even worse.

Wisdom does not always speak Latin.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. —Albert Einstein

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones.