Quotes About Perspective

With each obstacle, turn it into a moment where you can reflect on the bounty that is in your life.

People are walking around blind. If you are the one who can see, you will be able to navigate through this new world.

count all the things you are grateful for. Even the negative parts of your life. Figure out why you should be grateful for them. Try to get up to one hundred.

Dwelling on negativity won't suddenly have positive results. It only brings more negativity into your head. You can't buy happiness with the currency of unhappiness. The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

If you think, "Everything would be better off if I were dead," then think, "That's really cool. Now I can do anything I want and I can postpone this thought for a while, maybe even a few months." Because what does it matter now? The planet might not even be around in a few months. Who knows what could happen with all these solar flares.

Ultimately we are the sum of our experiences and not the sum of our belongings.

Here's an exercise for those who typically wake up anxious and paranoid at three in the morning: instead of counting sheep to get back to sleep, count all the things you are grateful for. Even the negative parts of your life. Figure out why you should be grateful for them. Try to get up to one hundred.

If you lower your expectations, for instance, your expectations are easy to exceed.

In that Facebook movie (you know, the Justin Timberlake vehicle), JT says, "A million's not cool. A BILLION is cool." Well, actually JT, very often a million is pretty cool.

Opinions are like money. No matter how much you know, there's always someone who knows more.

Children laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults on average…five times a day. What else is there? TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 

You are the average of the 5 things you are reading today.

Remember: complaining is draining. So I wanted to make better use of that energy rather than fight it.

Try this exercise: pretend everyone was sent to this planet to teach you. Famous people, dead people, your neighbors, your relatives, your co-workers. This will give you a strong feeling of humility. And guess what, you will learn from people, you will appreciate them more, and they will actually appreciate you more. Because everyone loves to teach.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.

Humans are great storytellers. That's what separates us from every other species.

The key: always assume you are the least intelligent person in the room. Always. Do this in every room, at every dinner, in every situation.

If someone wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony right now it would be laughed at.

Don't run scared to another country. They aren't better. They are, for the most part, far worse.

I ignore the headlines. Italy is a nice place to eat dinner and sight see but I'm not going to ever think again about their debt.

In removing yourself temporarily from the situation, you reduce the supply of yourself. In basic economics, value is a function of supply and demand. When supply goes down, value goes up.

What is enough? It's not a number.

if you can't find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.

And by the way, I know my title said "10 Reasons" and I only listed "6". I didn't learn to count in college.