Quotes About Perspective

Other men look up and down, left and right," he said. "But men like us are different. We are visionaries.

pair of you. Might I remind you, that you

If I were a male—one of your precious sprites—we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

Het is het niet waard. Neem dat maar aan van iemand die jouw fouten al begaan heeft. - Artemis, tegen Minerva

Strange that mud people were more concerned about the past than the present.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No es lo que te ocurre, sino cómo reaccionas lo que importa (Epíteto)

No es razonar con coherencia decir: «Soy más rico que tú, por lo tanto soy mejor que tú; soy más brillante que tú, entonces soy superior a ti». Para razonar más coherentemente es preciso decir: «Soy más rico que tú, pues mis bienes son mayores que los tuyos; soy más brillante que tú, pues mis discursos tienen mayor valor que los tuyos». Ya que tú no eres, ciertamente, ni riqueza, ni elocuación.

Não procures que tudo quanto acontece aconteça como desejas, antes deseja que tudo aconteça como de facto acontece. Desse modo serás feliz.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind — unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.

The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own...

These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But you are neither possession nor speech.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.