Quotes About Perspective

Living in hope comes from seeing things the way they really are. It starts with checking our own perspectives before trying to influence the perspectives of others. It's about changing from the inside out.

downs. Healthy people learn how to live with both. They enjoy the good but aren't devastated by the bad. Joy means appreciating the positive experiences in life but finding meaning in the tough times as well. It means living lightly and realistically, no matter what happens.

Contentment in life doesn't come from the absence of conflict; it comes from not giving away our emotional control to the demands of other people. We learn how to be independent in our choices instead of being dependent on what other people do or think.

It's inappropriate to have debilitating anger over events we can't control.

As I said, as indeed Orwell said, there is unproductive vagueness, but there is also dried out precision. We need both ways of thinking. Vagueness and precision, wide focus and narrow.

Never, Never Call Yourself a "Landlord

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another

It stops being funny, when it starts being you.

Rowing Slow is certainly different thinking.

If you don't conform to other people's ideas of what is right, correct, and proper, then don't worry. It is your right to look at things differently. Guilt should not enter the picture. There is already enough guilt, blame, and self-condemnation in the Universe to go around.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day as something that we 'get to' do... before our turn is over. Everything is a gift.

Step number one for changing the entire world is falling in love with it as it already is. The same is true for changing yourself.

Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your mind creates for your eyes to see. You're not limited by logic, the

Where you are is never who you are.

Life as you once knew it was the dream, and this "new place" is where you dreamt it from.

Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.

Young souls use pain to learn how things are. Mature souls use pain to learn how else things might be. And old souls, , use pain to learn how else they might be.