Quotes About Perspective

When you hang out with whiners, pessimists, tweakers, bleakers, freakers-outers, and life-is-so-unfairers, it's an uphill climb to keep yourself in a positive headspace. Stay away from people who see limitless possibility as the reality. Surround yourself with people who act on their big ideas, who take action on making positive change in the world and who see nothing as out of their reach.

When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that your reactions are not the truth about the person or situation, they are just your feelings about them. All you have to do is change your perception and you are free.

Instead, try seeing yourself through the eyes of someone who admires you. They get it. They believe in you leaps and bounds. They aren't connected to your insecurities and negative beliefs about yourself. All they see is your true glory and potential. Become one of your own die-hard fans, look at yourself from the outside, where all your self doubts can't crawl all over you, and behold what shines through.

Our "realities" are determined by how we habitually perceive ourselves and our worlds.

It made me think of the way so many of us live our lives. We can see what we want, and nearly kill ourselves trying to get it in a way that's not working. Meanwhile, if we just stopped, got quiet for a minute or two, and looked at things a little differently, we'd notice the door to what we want being held open for us by the nice lady in the bathrobe across the room. Then all we'd have to do is fly through it.

It never ceases to amaze me the precious time we spend chasing the squirrels around our brains, playing out our dramas, worrying about unwanted facial hair, seeking adoration, justifying our actions, complaining about slow Internet connections, dissecting the lives of idiots, when we are sitting in the middle of a full-blown miracle that is happening right here, right now.

When we're forced to do something, suddenly the time is there. Which means it's there all the time, but we've just chosen to limit ourselves by believing that it isn't.

You have already created the "reality" in which you exist via the thoughts, beliefs, mantras, habits, and actions you've repeated over and over throughout your life.

Life is but a dream. Don't turn it into a nightmare.

Albert Einstein so aptly noted, "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

All worrying will do is make you live through the misery twice.

I realize I'm making it sound like we're all crazy, but that's because we kind of are.

Money is a blank slate that gets its value from the energy and meaning we give it.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie

Why am I freaking out over something that I have no proof is even true?

I was doing pretty well—I'd published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.

everyone is living in their own self-created illusion, and that you have no idea what they're acting out or where they're coming from, so just because you think something is totally not okay, in their illusion, it could be fine and your way could be totally not okay.

Here's a cool exercise: Right now, look around wherever you are and count the number of things you see that are red. Take about a minute and count them all. Now stop, look back at this page without taking your eyes off of it, and try to think of everything around you that's yellow. There's probably a ton of yellow, but you didn't see it because you were looking for red.

realize I'm making it sound like we're all crazy, but that's because we kind of are.     Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else's beliefs. Until

Wake up, become aware of how you're perceiving "reality," make new choices, get outside help for fresh perspective, believe in the unbelievable. Most people stay in financial struggle not because they suck at what they do or don't have any prospects, but because they don't stretch their minds.

The person you spend the most time with affects you the most. And the person you spend the most time with is . . . you. Hence, what you tell yourself on a regular basis is muy importante.

When it comes to money, who and what you surround yourself with has a huge effect on how you perceive it and feel about it. Your environment helps define what you consider to be expensive or cheap, a wise or stupid purchase, and how much you'll allow yourself to make. In fact, here's a sobering exercise:

you create your reality. And you've spent a lifetime creating the one

Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else's beliefs.