Quotes About Perspective

the experience of an event depends on the mind of the experiencer, even more than the event itself.

not all sense is common.

We forget that it's only a matter of time before there is change—and, once again, a shift in perspective.

It is not morbid, not depressing to contemplate one's own death. Completely the opposite! It is only when we have faced the reality of our own death that we really know how to live.

we create our own reality, even if we don't recognise this.

We all face this same choice when dealing with problems. We don't ask for them. We don't want them. But the way we deal with them is what's most important. If we are wise, the greatest problems can lead to the greatest insights.

This proves that it is not so much the circumstances of our lives that make us happy or unhappy but the way we see them.

It's not what happens to you that matters, but the way you interpret things.

We paint the world with our thoughts,

Except that it was no more home, just the place where he had grown up, and that first day back, touring the once familiar places only made him realize that he had already lived close to half his life.

The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no worth without nostalgia, after all. They're meaningless if a memory isn't linked to them.

We act upon assumptions that control our view of reality, even though reality might be quite different... By definition, what is unthinkable isn't part of our reality... your assumptions about what is possible prevent you from accurately seeing the reality before you.

Except in situations of extreme uncertainty- invasions, assassinations, epidemics, earthquakes- people don't necessarily want to be told, "That's the way it is." But they do want to be told, "That's the way I think it is," by someone they feel they know, and by someone who lots of their friends feel they know.

As Boettner so aptly observes, for the Calvinist, the atonement "is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge that goes only half-way across." p. 41

You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Other people's sex lives are a little like other people's holidays: you're glad that they had fun but you weren't there and don't necessarily want to see the photos.

Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.