Quotes About Perspective

the writer Upton Sinclair once wrote: `It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Rushing emotions have no more real power to sweep you away than a tiny brook can move a boulder.

When a truly mature man has sex with a woman it is the same with him as if he had lunch with her. Afterward he casually remarks to the woman, "That was very nice"---while referring to either the sex or the salad.

Your wrongness is your present idea of happiness. Try to see how it is wrecking your life. You have one real chance. That once chance is to find yourself wrong. Never forget the first sentence of this paragraph, which is, your wrongness is your present idea of happiness. Replace that idea.

Whenever we resist something—perhaps an unkind remark, a shocking event, or a depressing feeling—our very resistance indicates a belief in the power of that event to hurt us. Although it is really powerless, our mistaken belief in it induces despair. But by not resisting, we dissolve the false belief and consequently the false power for harm.

Don't make a direct effort to understand things. Rather, concentrate on your present misunderstanding. Try to see through your own false viewpoints.

How long must a fish study to understand human motivation?

So even in hell, there are clowns.

We were looking for starfarers, but we were too small and all we saw were their ankles.

minds, who can show the rest of us what is important about the aliens' differences. So Trixia's

For where there is heaven, there can also be hell.

So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know

The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter. I'm no longer interested in doing what's expected of me. I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

good times and bad times are like the sun and moon. You usually see one and not the other, and yet you know that both are always there. Therefore, she concluded, when your fortunes are riding high, you shouldn't feel arrogant, and when they're low, you shouldn't feel depressed.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.

What is it with you today?" says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. Oh, you know," I say. Sun shining. Birds chirping." She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

Circumstances can be neither positive or negative; there are neutral. Only by your thinking do you attribute circumstances either positive or negative.

A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."—As A Man Thinketh

Work each day on your thoughts rather than concentrating on your behavior. It is your thinking that creates the feelings that you have and ultimately your actions as well.