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Quotes About Perspective

A change of feeling is a change of destiny. - Neville Goddard P.g44
~ Unknown
Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
~ George Bernard Shaw
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
~ Marcel Proust
It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.
~ Justin Vivian Bond
As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.
~ Michel Houellebecq
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment
~ Spencer W. Kimball
To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.
~ Susan Sarandon
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.
~ Jo Walton
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
~ Roald Dahl
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
~ Neil Gaiman
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
~ Zoë Heller
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.
~ Unknown
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
~ Patrick Dempsey
There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.
~ Unknown
You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.
~ Unknown
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
~ Robin Hobb
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
~ Martin Mull
It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
~ Melinda Gates
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
~ Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.
~ Richard Armour