Quotes About Perspective

Herman glowered, saying that clearly only Americans were historians now. 'They have so little of it to learn,' said Dulcie.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp]... I just wanted to know... what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.

But you see, Doug," Jane continued, suddenly animated again, "this just shows you the importance of language. We can discuss these problems. We can teach our children the importance of looking at a problem from different points of view. To keep an open mind. To choose forgiveness instead of revenge.

Yes, I've found that stories reach the heart better than any facts or figures.

So it seems we can shift our perspective to see the light and also to work to create more of it.

Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good.

That's the thing about theories. You can theorize what you want, but at the end of the day when your theories become reality, when the situation you have theorized about is suddenly presented to you, your theories go flying out the window?

we're the only ones in control of our happiness.

I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect

You see what you want to see, And you hear what you want to hear. You dig?

The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie'.

All those years of beauty, of a wonderful figure, and all I could think was that I was never pretty enough, never slim enough, never quite good enough. What I would give to have those years back, to appreciate them more, to appreciate the life I had while I was living it.

sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.

Well we all know blokes don't do detail, they do facts.

I say to you what I always say when things cannot be altered: count your blessingss.

In my simple, post-natal frame of mind, I was convinced that if the world were to be run by the mothers of newborn babies rather than hardened old men inciting brash youths to violence, wars would cease overnight.

I was stunned. I had only just met Stephen and for all his eccentricity I liked him. We both seemed shy in the presence of others, but were confident within ourselves. It was unthinkable that someone only a couple of years older than me should be facing the prospect of his own death. Mortality was not a concept that played any part in our existence. We were still young enough to be immortal.

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to "get into their world.

think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist

Your eye knows it sees, though it cannot see itself except through the use of reflection. In the same way the world as you see it is a reflection of what you are, a reflection not in glass but in three-dimensional reality.