Quotes About Perspective

Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself.

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

most of our energy goes into upholding our importance.… If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to … catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe.

re-examine everything you think will get you ahead in life—money, possessions, status, accomplishments—and see them as a source of suffering

Humans didn't take out an exclusive deed on reality—we just assume we did, perhaps out of our self-inflicted sense of superiority.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

As things stand, most people approach life from the bottom up, giving their material needs priority.

but the concepts of zero and one are human. Without us, they wouldn't exist.

La única razón por la que las piedras son sólidas es que el cerebro interpreta una ráfaga de señales eléctricas como tacto; la única razón por la que el sol brilla es que el cerebro interpreta otra ráfaga de señales eléctricas como vista. No hay luz solar en mi cerebro, cuyo interior es tan oscuro como una caverna de piedra caliza sin importar cuán iluminado esté el mundo exterior.

A simple shift of attention is all you need.

The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God's power towards all and over all that is seen. (in No Rusty Swords)

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Looking at someone in a negative way is like looking through a mirror

Those who hate rain hate life.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Get close to grass and you'll see a star.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

How does one say something new and not retell?

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.