Quotes About Perspective

I don't think religions are based on lies, but I don't think they're based on truths, either. I think they come about because of what people need at the time that they need them. Like the World Series player who won't take off his lucky socks, or the mother of the sick child who believes that her baby can sleep only if she's sitting by the crib – believers need, by definition, something to believe in.

I've thought a lot about it: how you can ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom. I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? One

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right?

But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.

In Norman's mind, there were no enemies in war. Just victims. Victims of historical process. Heavy

It's not as if I will be the first leader who ever turned her back on the truth because her people needed the comfort of fantasy. If everyone shared my sense of loss we would be paralyzed, doomed. I have to put it behind myself literally. Live only with the present and the future. We have no real past. We live in a hollow rock surrounded by nothing. Outside of this bubble of life, night that goes on forever. But this is true: it's only in the night that you can see the stars.

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Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

Someone has said that enemies are just people whose stories we don't know. I see a lot of truth in that. The more other people's stories are hidden from us, the easier it is for us to view them as enemies. But, when we begin to learn their stories, we recognize all we share in common with them and we delight in how the unique beauty of their traditions enriches our own lives.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

I don't think I'm special. I want you to know that," Odile says sharply. "I don't think I'm better than everybody else.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

I have my little corner in the literary universe and I'm okay with that

While traveling in this highly idiosyncratic country, it became clear to me that the Scots did not like the English.

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

Everything is humorous, said Shorty, except your own death. But other people will laugh.

The media is trained to find bad news and broadcast it to you. The more they do it and you believe it, the worst the world looks. It then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You live from the new paradigm of scarcity and the media, doing its job, broadcasts it. You don't even see it happening. It feels real. You take it as reality.

no matter what is happening in your life, no matter what you think will happen, it can be another way.

Ho'oponopono sees each problem not as an ordeal, but as an opportunity. Problems are just replayed memories of the past showing up to give us one more chance to see with the eyes of love and to act from inspiration.

You have two ways to live your life," Dr. Hew

If you don't pay more now for a pair of shoes than you used to spend on a car, your prosperity consciousness needs work. —RANDY GAGE, 101 KEYS TO YOUR PROSPERITY, WWW.MYPROSPERITYSECRETS.COM