Quotes About Perspective

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.

Mientras Maquiavelo veía el mundo poblado por embaucadores, miedosos y desagradecidos, los jesuitas lo veían a través de un lente muy distinto: veían a cada persona como un ser dotado de singular talento y dignidad.

Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

If so, why do you listen? Is it authority because it is in your head? Or is it in your head because it is authority?

She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us

It didn't matter how wonderful Andrew was and how much effort he was prepared to put into their relationship. While Lou didn't feel the same way, his love was only building a tower without foundations.

From a Christian perspective, justice must have a real objective existence, because justice derives from God, and God exists apart form human speculation. Justice is real because God is real. But our capacity to know God's universal justice is unavoidably conditioned by the ways of looking at life and the world which we receive from the particular historical and religious traditions to which we belong. This is where the Bible comes in.

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain

The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater was that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me. — JOHN BARRYMORE

Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.

There are times in people's lives when a significant event occurs and they're not aware of it—the last time you pick up a son before he's too heavy, the final kiss of a marriage gone bad, the view of a beloved landscape you'll never see again. Weeks later, I realized those were Dad's last words to me.

it occurred to him that time didn't move forward as he'd always thought. People move through time instead.

What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is "should." I "should" have done this. Or I "should" do that. "Should" implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is your perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you othervise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.'