Quotes About Perspective

part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.

If you get the man right (or the woman, of course), you get the world right.

Because the actions of your life are determined by your most dominant thought.

We all die, and yet, so often we conduct our lives as if we were going to live forever. If you knew you were going to die one year from today, how would you change your life?

The abuse of something good does not diminish the good itself.

we became the books we read.

There is a way to acknowledge the great suffering of others without diminishing our own suffering.

The employees now things about our business that we don't. We should do a survey and ask them why they think so many people come and go.

You may think you know just about everything there is to know about your partner, but you will be amazed at what you are missing out on if you open yourself up to taking another look. So, from time to time, it may help to approach each other as if for the first time. In this way you will experience the joy of rediscovery. Intimacy is not always about seeing new things. Sometimes it is about seeing what has always been before you, but in a different light or from a new perspective.

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You will only ever see less than one percent of the impact you have on people's lives.

By doing exactly the same things we did yesterday, but with a new mind-set, we are able to inject incredible meaning into the most mundane things—

One man's trash is another man's treasure. And that is true not only of things but also of experiences and problems.

Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards. I wonder why?

if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —ALBERT EINSTEIN I

The power of framestorming lies in its ability to engage our SLOW thinking in a manner that feels like FAST thinking. At the same time, it turns problems into puzzles. When we view something as a problem, we naturally engage in Leaping to solutions. When something is a puzzle, though, we naturally slow down a bit: we learn at an early age when doing puzzles that we need to get the corners and edges down first. Getting the puzzle frame right is half the battle!

When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT?

We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And

Sometimes in life, it doesn't matter that you've just woken up on a floor. Or that you haven't brushed your teeth. Or that your hair is a mess and you're wearing the clothes you slept in. Sometimes you just have to be polite.

Are all our parents, collectively, fucked up? Have they always been fucked up, and it just takes us until our own adulthood to figure that out? "I

Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I love most about Sonya. It's funny how things end, isn't it?

Whoa," I say. "Look how tall he is." "Actors are always midgets in person," says Brandon, "But writers...they're giants.

I knew very little about Afghanistan. Like most of my fellow countrymen, I preferred not to learn too much about dysfunctional countries until after my government invaded them. It's emotionally easier that way.