Quotes About Perspective

I've gone through my life drawing from my experiences both positive and negative to try and influence others for the good.

I thought I had problems, but now, knowing what you went through, I've stopped feeling sorry for myself. I'm going to quit tearing myself apart and treat my problems more lightly.

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

there are many realities

Sometimes the past seemed like enough, in comparison with the disappointments of the present.

There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.

Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.

Relationships are about stories, not truth.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

Harriet: Is it fun being married? Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know.

I don't fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

What you choose to think about yourself and about your life becomes true for you.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life — the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

It is true if you believe it to be true.

each of us is doing the very best we can at this very moment. If we knew better, if we had more understanding and awareness, then we would do it differently.

We need to understand that they were doing the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had at that time.

It's hard enough to make changes when we want to, but to try to make someone else change when he or she doesn't want to is impossible

We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for "we" are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

Our thinking creates our experiences," she began. "That doesn't mean the loss didn't happen or that the grief isn't real. It means that our thinking shapes our experience of the loss.

Our consistent thinking patterns create our experiences. Therefore, by changing our thinking patterns, we can change our experiences