Quotes About Perspective

How do we know that even the realest of realities wouldn't be subjective, in the final analysis? Nobody can prove his existence, can he?

Cautious Brain Types often look to the future with trepidation, but when you are wrapped up in the future, it means you are missing out on the present and live with a baseline level of anxiety, which creates misery.

Money can change your circumstances to a certain point, but money doesn't help much once you have your basic needs met.

ANT Species of ANT Kill the ANT You never listen to me. "Always/Never" Thinking I get frustrated when you don't listen to me, but I know you have listened to me and will again. The boss doesn't like me. Mind Reading I don't know that. Maybe she's just having a bad day. Bosses are people, too. The whole class will laugh at me. Fortune-telling I don't know that. Maybe they'll really like my speech.

Make an effort to compare yourself to others in a positive way. Comparing yourself to others in a negative way is the most predictable way to lower your self-esteem.

focus on what they have in life rather than what they don't have.

Lie #2: A "Don't Worry, Be Happy" mindset, promoted by the popular 1988 Grammy Song of the Year of the same name by Bobby McFerrin, will make you happy.

Lie #4: Someplace else will make you happy.

Pollyanna's philosophy about finding something to be glad about in any situation is an excellent way to go through life. If there were ever a good time to play the Glad Game, then today would undoubtedly qualify. But no matter what situation or setback you find yourself in, I urge you to ask yourself this question: What is there to be glad about?

Is it true? (Is the stressful or negative thought true?) 2. Can I absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do I react when I believe that thought? 4. Who would I be without the thought? Or, how would I feel if I didn't have the thought?

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question.

Studies such as these demonstrate that once we have an experience, we cannot simply set it aside and see the world as we would have seen it had the experience never happened.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what they eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

When we imagine future circumstances, we fill in details that won't really come to pass and leave out details that will. When we imagine future feelings, we find it impossible to ignore what we are feeling now and impossible to recognize how we will think about the things that happen later.

the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine—ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be.

At some point between our high chairs and our rocking chairs, we learn about later.

events that challenge our optimistic beliefs can sometimes make us more rather than less optimistic.

Who thus define it, say they more or less / Than this, that happiness is happiness?

within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism.

Stuart Mill wrote, 'It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."14