Quotes About Perspective

How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?

For an All-Expenses-Paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off it's wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?

Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

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Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude.

One man's daydreaming is another man's novel.

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

You are only as old as the woman you feel.

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it...

Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Everyone who is alive can find something to be grateful for if they look for it. If you are among the few that can't find anything, start with the fact that you are ALIVE and continue from there. Counting ones blessings is a barometer of mental health.

On the surface, we are all different. We ascribe to a variety of belief systems, attain our identity from various stories, get our customs from diverse cultures, and so on. And, rightly or wrongly, we generally define ourselves by these differences—there is no denying that. However, when we look beneath the surface, we discover certain universal elements.

Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are no more human than a driver is the car he is driving. You would never go to a junkyard to look for the driver would you?

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.