Quotes About Perspective

We already have everything we need. There is nothing to improve. Thinking we are good or bad, fair or unfair, all that is nonsense.

She thinks about the other prostitutes who work with her. She thinks about her mother and her friends. They all believe that man feels desire for only eleven minutes a day, and that they'll pay a fortune for it. That's not true; a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life.

If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

We are bound to our lives, to our pasts, to the laws of what we consider right or wrong, and suddenly, everything changes. We

It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Your hand is small, yet it can completely cover the power, light and majesty of the great sun. In the same way, the small problems manage to give you the excuse you need in order to hinder your progress along your spiritual journey.

Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.

As you go in, on the first floor, the back window

Some people say that, as summer approaches, we start to have weird ideas; we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss

I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours

I'm not saying: Seek out people who think the same as you. I'm saying: Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

Saímos pelo mundo em busca de nossos sonhos e ideais. Muitas vezes colocamos nos lugares inacessíveis o que está ao alcance das mãos.

Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.

Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see that whold and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guild, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right. - Mata Hari

This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.

Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.