Quotes About Perspective

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

To change your reality, simply stop thinking like that.

The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?"

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

When you change your thoughts and perception, you change the way you live.