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Perspective Quotes


"The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it."


"When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view."


"Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good."


"Most would probably call it a dumb idea, but considering my wants it was a good idea."


"Do not let your problems become a burden and interfere with your endless possibilities."


"For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it."


"The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness."


"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."


"For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!"


"A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble."


"It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet."


"You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!"


"If you see it's impossible, you may use others' eyes."


"The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance."


"Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist."


"When people give you disappointment, don't worry; they are only showing you this- appointment. Just look and see."



"Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils."


"Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view."



"As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself."


"I know the world is flat now, I'm not going back."


"The world outside is a reflection of the world inside."


"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."


"Future dreams distract you from present nightmares."


"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?"


"When rich, being poor seems 'adventurous.'"


"Let us see our life through the lens of our love,we will find that life is amazing and magical."


"The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically."


"One man's fool is just another man's savior."


"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."


"It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?"


"We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it."


"It doesn't matter how big you are, it matters how big your thoughts are."


"It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were."


"The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds."


"Look at the world around you and focus on the possibilities not the problem."


"It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed."



"A living dog is better than a dead lion."


"Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!"



"It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a "Christian" but the truth is we respond from very different world-views."


"Not until we leave bad situations for worst situations, we shall least value and appreciate bad situations which shield us from the worst situation."


"When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns."


"Don't let your problems become your obsession."


"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black, and that has made all the difference."


"If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with."


"Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions."


"This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace."



"If we start to complain, destruction is right at our door."


"You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use!"



"We cannot compare our position to the people in this world."


"There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us."
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