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Perspective Quotes
"Danger is opportunity's seer."
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"For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool."
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"If you continue to concentrate so deeply on the negative factors you are unable to acknowledge all the positive results."
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"Do not let your problems become a burden and interfere with your endless possibilities."
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"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
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"You don't need to climb the mountain; you need to see it."
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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
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"When you are fulfilled within, big problems look small and when you have a vacuum within small problems look big!!!"
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"It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet."
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"A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid."
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"We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence."
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"He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solution to the problem, but it also gave him the opportunity to remind himself that things were not really as bad as they seemed; it was all a question of perspective. Sitting down and looking up at the sky for a few minutes--not at any particular part of the sky, but just at the sky in general--at the vast, dizzying, empty sky of Botswana, cut human problems down to size."
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"Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans."
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"Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor."
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"People say 'dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky', this is your feeling, not the Dog's!!!"
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"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life."
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"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens."
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"Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now."
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"I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others."
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"May we always see life through love-coloured glasses."
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"I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It's the least you can do, really, as a polite guest."
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"This earth in which we are living is not our everlasting home."
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"Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame..."
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"Anyone can look up at a mountain, but not everyone can look down from it."
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"You see the bird and you see its flight.You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight."
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"Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe-with charity-that there is still room for Hope."
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"All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I'll go right on thinking I'm descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you'd feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn't be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn't make me feel I'd done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I'm descended from an ape, I feel I've done remarkably well."
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"We are all different in every individual person. But from here I ask myself what do they see when I see a car which is red, what colour do they see, do they see also red and is the same colour which I know red for them?"
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"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
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"Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them."
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"We cannot compare our position to the people in this world."
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"Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side."
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"Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."
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"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"
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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music."
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"Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening."
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"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."
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"Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them."
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"The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds."
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"Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring."
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"The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance."
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"As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself?"
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"It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative."
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"Look at the world around you and focus on the possibilities not the problem."
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"A living dog is better than a dead lion."
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"Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!"
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"It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a "Christian" but the truth is we respond from very different world-views."
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"Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of what I say. But People who are one of the two think I'm the other and at the end get confused totally."
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"Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly."
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