Quotes About Perspective

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles." Maltbie D. Babcock (1858–1901) WRITER AND CLERGYMAN

The most important thing for you to know is that it is impossible to feel bad and at the same time be having good thoughts. That would defy the law, because your thoughts cause your feelings. If you are feeling bad, it is because you are thinking thoughts that are making you feel bad.

You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.

You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." Willie Nelson (B. 1933) SINGER-SONGWRITER

you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

Look for the gifts in everything, especially when you are facing what appears to be a negative situation. Everything that we attract causes us to grow, which means that ultimately everything is for our own good.

Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

The flipside is that when we're not counting our blessings, we can fall into the trap of unintentionally counting negative things.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude." Wallace Wattles

If you are complaining, the law of attraction will powerfully bring into your life more situations for you to complain about.

Life is presenting every person and circumstance to you so you can choose what you love and what you don't love. When you react to anything, you are reacting with your feelings, and as you do so, you are choosing it.

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

In the future, if life presents you with a challenging situation that you think you have no control over, and you're at a loss as to what to do, instead of worry or fear, turn to the magic of gratitude and be grateful for everything else in your life. When you deliberately thank the goodness in your life, the circumstances around the challenging

No matter what your current situation, the very thought that you don't have enough money is being ungrateful for the money you have.

Most people believe that negative situations come from outside of them; they believe that it's either people, circumstances, or events in the world that have caused the negative situations in their life. But nothing is inherently good or bad, as Shakespeare told us: "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves." Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) POET AND ARTIST

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances." Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892) PERSIAN FOUNDER OF THE BAHÁââ'¬â"¢Í FAITH

You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most

You change your life in the only way you can ever change it: change your mind, and then your life will change.

There are two kinds of people: Those who say, "I will believe it when I see it." And those who say, "To see it, I know I must believe