Quotes About Perspective

You become what you think about most.. But you also attract what you think about most. (John Assaraf)

Whenever you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)

If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.

A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it.

Almost twenty, I thought. And here I am at twenty-five still thinking I am young and have plenty of time to decide what to do with my life.

He sometimes wondered about depression and anxiety and how people called them mental illness. It made no sense. How could somebody look out at the wide world and not have an anxious or depressed reaction?

DN: I know a certain human with his brains in his, his other end.

THE COWS DON'T LOOK UP

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

These were facts, not myths, although what freight they carried I could not say. I was deaf in Simon's language, and blind in his culture. In the end, all I really

once a man, twice a child. we're on this earth for a short while. get that ugly frown off your face, and wear a smile.

avaro hasta el extremo de que si en vez de nacer hombre hubiera nacido reloj, por no dar no habría dado ni las horas,

Todos nos inventamos historias diversas (que en el fondo son siempre la misma) para imaginar que nos ha pasado algo en la vida.

Toda historia de amor es, si uno no la ve sino que la vive, si uno no la observa por las gafas sino por el microscopio, una historia de terror

El tiempo no existe —anota en las hojas de papel periódico que siempre ha usado— porque no sólo es una ficción, sino que le ha estado sucediendo a cada cual». Sin embargo, son las 8:30 p.m.

Me puse las gafas para que todas las cosas volvieran a su sitio.

No sé en qué momento empezaste a darte permiso de darme por sentada -le dijo ella, siempre a cargo, con el estómago revuelto en la garganta-: no sé en qué momento te comiste el cuento de que tú eres el protagonista de esta historia

Pensaba en darle las gracias a ella por haberlo salvado de andar por ahí- y ese, si uno quiere, puede ser el sentido del matrimonio: librarlo a uno de uno mismo e impedirle perderse en sus ficciones- creyéndose por encima del bien y del mal, comiéndose el cuento chino de su propio triunfo

El punto es que el mundo no está cambiando, sino que ya cambió, y despreciar lo nuevo es la cosa más vieja de todas

Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end. Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversation .

I shook his hand and thanked him, and as I thanked him I welled up and as that happened I tried to explain. 'It's because I'm from Chicago,' I said. 'Where in Chicago are you from?' he asked. 'Glencoe.' 'That's not Chicago,' he said, and waved me away.

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.