Quotes About Perspective

In short, man's conception of himself determines that which he sees his world to be.

Para disolver un problema que ahora te parece tan real, todo lo que tienes que hacer es quitar tu atención de ello.

As you know, all of the Bible stories are your stories; its characters live only in the mind of man. They have no reference at all to any person, who lived in time and space, or to any event that ever occurred upon earth.

Your imagination is you yourself, and the world as your imagination sees it is the real world.

No es el mundo - eso cambia automáticamente- si yo, en una pequeña forma, cambio dentro de mí.

la concepción que tiene el hombre de sí mismo, determina lo que ve que su mundo es.

So if you find yourself in a place where you are miserable and feel helpless, it is because you either knowingly or unknowingly fell into that state, and not because of the condemnation of some deity outside of you.

A change of impression results in a change of expression.

Thoughts, no matter what they are, aren't the problem – our sometimes dysfunctional relationship with them is.

Many of us, either from too little emotion or too much intellect, both of which are stumbling blocks in the way of prayer, cannot believe that which our senses deny. To force ourselves to believe will end in greater doubt.

What you sincerely believe as true of another you awaken within him.

We think from ideas that we consent to as true and we imagine situations that match our beliefs.

The important thing to bear in mind is that you have infinite free will in choosing your assumptions, but no power to determine conditions and events. You can create nothing, but your assumption determines what portion of creation you will experience.

Jesus realised that the world was made in the likeness of man. He knew that man saw his world to be what it was because man was what he was. In short, man's conception of himself determines that which he sees his world to be.

Often our most elaborate and original thoughts are determined by another.

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act; it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

If you want someone to be big in your world, you must make him big in your mind first, and treat him that way morning, noon and night. If you see him as that being, he cannot fail, because he must become what you behold. But you cannot waver. The moment you listen to a rumor, you change the picture, and you cannot.

Do not selfishly define this interval in days and hours because you are anxious to receive it, but simply remain in the conviction that it is done—time, being purely relative, should be eliminated entirely—and your desire will be fulfilled.

One of the things I think about is if you were to take a history book and pull the bullshit out of it, find the truth, snatch out all the bullshit that's in there, then you're going to wind up with two or three pages.

LGBT history is written, like most history, by the victors, those with the means and those with connections to power.

Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they're trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it's this long-term perspective that builds character, wisdom, and self-discipline. Long-term thinking is the hallmark of high-performance living, yet it's often neglected in favor of the treadmill of urgent activities of the moment.

The Bible says this life is really like a puff of smoke. I don't want to strive and stress and be anxious over a puff of smoke when I have eternity to look forward to.

The Whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?