Quotes About Perspective

death is an insignificant detail that doesn't need to be consciously struggled with or dreaded.

You'll be happily surprised by how nice it feels to simply change your belief that you're only successful if you're making money.

knowing yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being having a temporary human experience, rather than the other way around.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change!

Stop waiting for others to change. Ask yourself why others should be different simply because you would like it better if they were. Recognize that every person has a right to be whatever they choose, even if you irritate yourself about it.

Begin a practice of joyfully engaging with the things you take for granted. There are comforts such as your home, garden, meals, clothes, family members, and friends that you experience every day without ever appreciating them.

have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times?

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises.

The backdrop for virtually all neurosis is making others' behavior more significant than your own.

when you adjust rule-based thinking to a heart-based attitude, your life will change!

there's no such thing as stress; there are only people thinking stressful thoughts.

When you change the way you process the world, the world you're processing changes.

Replace the sentence "It isn't fair" with "It's unfortunate," or "I'd prefer..." Thus, instead of insisting that the world be other than it is, you begin to accept reality—but not necessarily to approve of it.

La diferencia está en el modo en que decidas procesar tu vida.

listen more, allow your viewpoints to be challenged, and bend when necessary

It's up to you to recognize that your belief that ego can control life is an illusion.

If you can meet triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same . . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it.

I'll see it when I believe it.

he delivered a series of lectures that became books, which forever changed the way we look at

Albert Einstein was right: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

They do not equate being successful in any enterprise with being successful as a human being. Since their self-worth comes from within, any external event can be viewed objectively as simply effective or ineffective. They know that failing is merely somebody else's editorial opinion and not to be feared since it cannot affect self-worth. Thus, they will try anything, participate just because it's fun, and never fear having to explain themselves.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When

when life looks difficult, stop and realize that you're only one thought removed from being at peace.