Quotes About Perspective

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.

It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion.

Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.

You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you.

Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.

Life is amazing. Even when it sucks, it is amazing, and we should be grateful for every moment.

Be more grateful, and less worried.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.