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Perspective Quotes
"Your perspective determines your experiences, attitude and the quality of your life."
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"I must look at the 'nature' of God, not the 'nature' of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing."
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"If you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keeping your pimple in perspective. You might compare your pimple situation to that of someone who was being eaten by a bear, and when you looked in the mirror at your ugly pimple, you could say to yourself, 'Well, at least I'm not being eaten by a bear."
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"You are the sky, everything else is just passing clouds."
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"When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad."
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"Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?"
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"There are so many lenses through which we look at life. There are so many lenses through which we perceive others. There are so many lenses through which we interpret things that happen to us in life and there are so many lenses that give us not just the different perspectives about life, but how we behave towards life and other people due to the reasons we have! Wealth influences our reasons and poverty directs our actions. Failure shows us a different way to behave and success gives us a different reason for action."
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"When you start thinking from other's point of view, you will understand him more easily and more completely."
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"Nothing ever goes wrong; it only goes different."
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"One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but one fleeting glance."
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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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"You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook."
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"Anything that just costs money is cheap."
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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
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"When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it."
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"The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age."
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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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"Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere- and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves."
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"I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice."
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"Never go tapping into the lives of others like you know them and their story! Their story is not yours, tell yours, for that is all you know."
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"An eagle can mock a lion only because of its wings."
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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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"Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe."
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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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"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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"Danger is opportunity's seer."
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"When someone is searching." said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher,because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes."
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"May we always see life through love-coloured glasses."
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"We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn't help make things any better."
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"The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view."
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"I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan."
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"In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process that allows us to discern the essential principles of life."
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"Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to."
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"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
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"And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision."
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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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"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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"Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary."
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"We must each ascertain our own way to quantify the world. We can choose to peer at life harshly or benevolently. The prism that we select to view the world ultimately is the same standard that we employ to judge ourselves."
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"To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest."
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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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"We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm."
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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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"For you to exist on earth, downplay on the religious factor."
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"A slice is a loaf to a mouse."
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"Life is as fair as you perceive it to be."
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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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"A person's outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings' behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair."
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