Quotes About Perspective

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

How long was a year anyway? Fifty-two weeks? Three hundred and sixty-five days? Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours?

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.

He was struck by the sensation she'd made it happen in some way, that his life was simply a story the old woman was making up in her head.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and profound than you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

In comparison with the value of one soul, all the sacrifices we make are small in comparison.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

un hombre que ama puede ver cosas que los demás no ven. La fe abre puertas.

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others. Terribly objective sometimes. But the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.'

Nothing's ordinary when you really look at it.

I see only light, Daddo." "Then I fear for you, my son. For a man who sees only light will stumble over the things that lie in shadows." "Then does a man who looks only at shadows not also stumble, for lack of seeing light?

The dragon. Just when you think he's getting smaller and smaller, no bigger than a lapdog, he opens his little mouth and swallows the whole world in one gulp.

One of the things that haunts me as an artist is the way we project so much onto the world. I'm down on my luck, and the world looks a wretched place. I'm feeling prosperous, so I think the whole international scene is too. I'm unhappy, so I look around and all I see is unhappiness. I buy a certain brand of car, and suddenly I notice them everywhere. Or I'm in love and all I see is love, the whole world in love.

Apologize for what?" she replied in a deceptively quiet voice. "For your particular perspective on the truth? It is a habit of human beings to crystallize around themselves a lens through which they may safely view the experiences of life.

There's a dialogue between the self and the soul", he said. "They aren't enemies. More like two lenses trying to get in focus.

I don't mean to be critical, but you have been away from civilization for quite a long time. One's perspectives can narrow.

Had simply everyone rewritten history to suit his prejudices? Was most of it, perhaps all of it, a myth? If so, what was real?

Are we just looking for a sympathetic ear to agree with us, or are we asking for people to speak the truth to us? I can remember many times being angry with someone because he spoke the truth to me. How about you?

To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

What an internal coach says about his own employer and the conclusions and recommendations a coach gives to his own employer will inevitably influence how an employer treats the coach.