Perspective Quotes
Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…
Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.
Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.
Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?
It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.
No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting.
Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.
In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.
Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world.
If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.
If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.
I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you've known your whole life.
I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.
The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?
The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.
Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.
My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement
I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.
Wisdom is not measured by age, Intelligence is not measured by grades, Personality is not measured by what others say
By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.
Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.
Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of
You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.
A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.
I had this dream about you. We went hunting up in the mountains and I caught a unicorn. You told me now I know how it feels to be you.
Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it.
I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.
When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.
Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.
Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.
Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.
I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.
You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.
As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view, And a quiet soul.
The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.
The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.
Sometimes you just have to stop and take in your surroundings. Really look at where you are in life, otherwise it's just going to pass you by. Regret is a heavy word to live with." - Riley