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Perspective Quotes
"There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle."
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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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"Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom-the cold, dark air-that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears."
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"People say, 'that bump caused me to trip', but the bump says, 'I am where I have always been. It's the wretched ones who can't see, they come my way and trip over!"
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"He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with."
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"There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude."
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"See life for what it is - a blessing to be lived - rather than what is so often reduced to, a problem to be fixed."
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"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."
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"She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need."
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"Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?"
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"Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight."
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"I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little."
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"To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we've hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place."
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"It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too."
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"We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall."
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"Your perspective changes relative to the frame through which you see things."
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"Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions."
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"One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realise all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing."
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"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
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"One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It's also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don't feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know it's hard, but you're doing them a lasting favor. And a wider perspective can be difficult for you yourself to accept, in the beginning (during the time that you squint while the sunlight stings your own eyes), but later you'll find yourself coming back to it, even if you abandoned it as something worthless; you'll look for it, one day. Or it will grow on you. Perspective."
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"You are on a certain 'step'. This state is meant for only you, it is not applicable to other people. Others are on a different 'step'. Therefore you cannot pressurize anyone. You cannot have any 'objection' towards them."
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"Anyone can look up at a mountain, but not everyone can look down from it."
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"No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery."
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"Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree."
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"We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away."
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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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"Storms are rainbow's inside out."
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"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude."
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"Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side."
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"People must be taught that money is not the most important benefit of work."
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"Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said."
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"If you think your life is meaningless, then think about the starving kids in the world and imagine what they would say about the things you take for granted in your life."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
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"Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them."
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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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"The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune."
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"Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper."
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"If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night."
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"One man's thorn is another man's rose."
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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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"To hear a radical change of perspective is to hear a kingdom minded man speak."
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"Joblessness is a blessing."
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"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."
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"But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another's horizon is."
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"Money promises more than it delivers, love delivers more than it promises."
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"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."
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"Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference."
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"I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine."
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"The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: "I'm right, you're wrong."
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