Quotes About Perspective

If you're being swept away, off somewhere, then why count the pebbles on the shore; they're on the shore, after all.

Life was not a piece of clothing that could be changed ten times. What there is, is all yours, and it's wrong to refuse any of it, even the very worst.

Everything that happens is for the best, so that life is happier and more interesting. Just live without looking around or thinking.

A person gets old not when he reaches old age, but, when he stops being a child.

I might have wanted another destiny for myself, but others have theirs, and I have mine. And I'm not sorry about it. It's mine.

Avevo iniziato a vedere le cose mettendomi dal suo punto di vista, usando la sua positività, e ho scoperto che c'era effettivamente un'altra via per affrontare quella circostanza. Lì ho imparato che se ci sono due modi di vedere una situazione, è sempre meglio scegliere quello ottimistico.

As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconciously to the soughing of the trees.

There is nothing worse than falling prey To someone else's confusion.

We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.

The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.

Remember, if you hold something close enough, you lose your ability to see it.

Ser jóvenes», se dijo, «no es un mérito ni una virtud. Es simplemente una condición de la existencia».

Ascoltare una bella storia è come sognare, ma poi bisogna svegliarsi e la vita... bé, la vita è un'altra cosa.

La libertad es un concepto abstracto: ¿la libertad de quién? ¿Es libre un pobre que no tiene lo suficiente para sustentarse a sí mismo y sacar adelante a su familia?

IT'S ALL IN YOUR MIND If you have ever watched other

Never forget that when you point the finger at someone, three of your own fingers are pointing back at you...

The older I get, the better I was.

You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

She had told her son praying about a situation was like taking the fight to God and letting Him go to battle for us so many times as he grew up, but she never knew if he listened or believed her. Trish popped her fingers. "You got that right.