Quotes About Perspective

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

As we believe, our life will be

Don't let life get in the way of living

Judging someone without knowing their life experience, without knowing their pain, by their physical appearance, by their social status, from your own belief system, from other people's gossip, is a very shallow view, and a very shallow opinion.

Negative programming. We write the programs. And we can rewrite the programs. If we drop the negative self- talk. If we drop the negative self- beliefs. If we drop the negative world view. Then we drop the negative programs. Think about the word negative. It refers to negative energy. What we put our energy into we create more of. Focusing on the negative is like praying for what we don't want. If we stop putting energy into what we don't want, then we stop creating it.

The more we focus on a problem, the more of a problem it becomes

Things are often not as they seem, but always as they should be.

Thoughts about reality are not reality

To change a failure into a success requires a change in perspective

We cannot lose control over something we have no control over

It's only cows who never change their opinion.

The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.

Did there come a point, beyond which we no longer look forward to something coming,but only to getting away from what had passed?

Life isn't a game of chess after all.A game of chess involves so very many more possibilities.

we are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.

The prism of time refracts the light into thousands of rays. I stand with my hands open and embrace them. p. 94

Age for me is just a number.

She thought about how this summer was small. On the ground, it felt huge, but really, it was just a moment in a series of moments.

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested "in how they feel and in their point of view.