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Perspective Quotes
"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."
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"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."
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"You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me."
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"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."
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"Suspending moral judgement is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgement is legitimate, but that she refuses it a place in the novel."
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"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
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"For you to exist on earth, downplay on the religious factor."
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"A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest."
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"You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal."
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"It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one."
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"Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up."
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"As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble."
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"Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight."
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"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."
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"Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world."
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"Look at the world through your vision not through the misperceptions of others."
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"A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another."
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"For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool."
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"Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full-moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on Earth- every day I have ever had- was secretly sunny after all....I feel like I've just flown 600 miles per hour head-on into the most beautiful metaphor of my life: If you fly high enough, if you get above the clouds, it's never-ending summer."
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"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible."
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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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"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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"The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both."
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"As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself?"
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"But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view."
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"The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit."
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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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"An eagle can mock a lion only because of its wings."
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude."
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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
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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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"Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!"
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"I ask, 'Is the cup half-empty or half-full?' And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup."
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"As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it."
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"Danger is opportunity's seer."
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"Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories."
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"Your perspective changes relative to the frame through which you see things."
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"What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands."
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"Your perspective determines your experiences, attitude and the quality of your life."
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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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"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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"Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans."
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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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"The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy, and to have that sort of mind--one which enjoyed dry with and understood the absurd--left one in a shrinking minority."
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