Quotes About Perspective

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.

I would look down from the Point to see a hawk riding the updrafts from the ridges below me and I would think: I am higher than he is. This is what it's like to fly.

Perhaps the two of us simply got off on the wrong foot, my lord. You seem to have received the mistaken impression that I came to Fairchild Park to make your life more difficult." "The words 'a living hell' have come to mind more than once since your arrival." She blew out a gusty sigh. "Contrary to what you may believe, I took this position so I could bring more ease to your life." "Just when were you planning to start?

Noses run. Feet smell.

For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate.

there is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and

The lack of one's understanding is set by the reality they are willing to accept.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Before you open your mouth," I tell him, "I want you to stop and think. Ask yourself: 'What is the thing I'm about to say going to feel like to the person I'm speaking to?

In this regard, we are all a type of narcissist. None of us sees ourselves directly—our self-perceptions are filtered through acquired knowledge.

I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

Objectively" Stan was 100 percent right. At the same time, however, he was 100 percent tin-eared when it came to his wife's subjective experience. Worse, every time Lucy tried to tell him what bothered her, every time she tried to bridge the gap between them, Stan only retreated more staunchly into his precious rightness.

resolution comes only by giving up that dream and taking in that you and your partner are not, in fact, going to see all things the same way.

It's about changing the way you see yourself in relation to your partner so that your life is neither a desert nor a battle.

There is no place for objective reality in personal relationships. Objective reality is great for getting trains to run on time or for developing an important vaccine, but for ferreting out which point of view is "valid" in an interpersonal transaction, it is a loser.

Trying to make sense of other people's responses to us is a basic human activity. Accepting a mother's [or anyone's] anger by concluding that i is justified is a way of making sense of a difficult relationship. But this acceptance comes at a great cost, for it means that we see their cruelty as our shame.

Maybe we all need a glimpse of life without someone we love once in a while, just to teach us not to take them for granted.

You're the prettiest girl I've ever known," he said. She smiled, knowing it wasn't true. But it was true to him.

Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.