Quotes about Perspective

Perspective will come in retrospect. Votes: 4

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Votes: 4

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Votes: 3

Perspective: use it or lose it. Votes: 3

Perspective is the cure for depression. Votes: 3

One person's craziness is another person's reality. Votes: 3

Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time. Votes: 3

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. Votes: 3

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life. Votes: 3

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life. Votes: 3

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom. Votes: 3

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. Votes: 3

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. Votes: 3

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently... Votes: 3

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Votes: 3

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. Votes: 3

Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn. Votes: 3

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed. Votes: 3

No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting. Votes: 3

Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity. Votes: 3

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found. Votes: 3

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Votes: 3

Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected. Votes: 3

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective. Votes: 3

Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it. Votes: 3

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently? Votes: 3

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently~? Votes: 3

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points Votes: 3

Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes. Votes: 3

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter. Votes: 3

Perspective is a gift nowadays. Votes: 2

Photography is all about the perspective! Votes: 2

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love. Votes: 2

The years teach much which the days never know. Votes: 2

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Votes: 2

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. Votes: 2

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. Votes: 2

Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition. Votes: 2

You change the past when you change the way you see it. Votes: 2

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. Votes: 2

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world? Votes: 2

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective. Votes: 2

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. Votes: 2

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are. Votes: 2

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. Votes: 2

You don't see the world as it is, you see it,as you are. Votes: 2

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking. Votes: 2

There is wisdom in climbing mountains... For they teach us how truly small we are. Votes: 2

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain. Votes: 2

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. Votes: 2

We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective. Votes: 2

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Votes: 2

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. Votes: 2

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it. Votes: 2

Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective. Votes: 2

All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You. Votes: 2

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence. Votes: 2

Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you? Votes: 2

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. Votes: 2

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see. Votes: 2

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. Votes: 2

I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world. Votes: 2

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. Votes: 2

There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are. Votes: 2

Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization. Votes: 2

Mirrors lie. Votes: 1

With time comes perspective. Votes: 1

Changing yourself changes everything. Votes: 1

Think personally, act communally. Votes: 1

Perseverance and perspective until victory. Votes: 1

Your perspectives change your realities. Votes: 1

Peace produces a proper perspective. Votes: 1

I love objectivity when mine. Votes: 1

One must always forgive another's passion. Votes: 1

Understand yourself first to understand others. Votes: 1

Electricity is really just organized lightning Votes: 1

Distance lends enchantment to the view. Votes: 1

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. Votes: 1

You are lucky to feel sadness. Votes: 1

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. Votes: 1

Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies. Votes: 1

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Votes: 1

Change your awareness and your perspective changes. Votes: 1

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine, Votes: 1

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession. Votes: 1

The journey is where we find perspective. Votes: 1

Raise the bar higher than your opinion... Votes: 1

Life is too important to take seriously. Votes: 1

No two people see things the same. Votes: 1

Worship is the launching pad for life. Votes: 1

The best things in life aren't things. Votes: 1

Life's a short trip. You'll find out. Votes: 1

There's always time for tea.-- Lily Votes: 1

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success. Votes: 1

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams Votes: 1

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles. Votes: 1

The perspective is more important than the perception Votes: 1

Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button. Votes: 1

People's realities are the result of their perceptions. Votes: 1

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective. Votes: 1

People only see what they want to see Votes: 1

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception. Votes: 1

Be like the flower, content with its nature. Votes: 1

..there are two possible endings to every story. Votes: 1

No two persons ever read the same book. Votes: 1

Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman. Votes: 1

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. Votes: 1

Our side has agents. Their side has spies. Votes: 1

I've learned far too much to know everything. Votes: 1

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. Votes: 1

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully. Votes: 1

Historical revisionists find what they set out to find. Votes: 1

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you. Votes: 1

Good results when achieved make insults cease to exist Votes: 1

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective. Votes: 1

Truth is a kaleidoscope - it alters with perspective Votes: 1

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage. Votes: 1

Memories are not always the best measure of things. Votes: 1

Who would you impress if the world was blind? Votes: 1

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller. Votes: 1

Where you are today is where you're from tomorrow. Votes: 1

As small as a world as large as alone. Votes: 1

The landscape looks different from every blade of grass. Votes: 1

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. Votes: 1

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds! Votes: 1

Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt. Votes: 1

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world. Votes: 1

...I look out at the world through your transparent face... Votes: 1

Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You? Votes: 1

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. Votes: 1

If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention Votes: 1

All stories are true. But some of them never happened. Votes: 1

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain. Votes: 1

Life makes fun of us and we should help it. Votes: 1

The answers you get depend on the questions you ask. Votes: 1

It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime. Votes: 1

The body is our general medium for having a world. Votes: 1

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future. Votes: 1

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. Votes: 1

Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel. Votes: 1

When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view. Votes: 1

At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked. Votes: 1

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective. Votes: 1

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. Votes: 1

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules. Votes: 1

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see. Votes: 1

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play? Votes: 1

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. Votes: 1

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong Votes: 1

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it Votes: 1

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing. Votes: 1

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt. Votes: 1

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. Votes: 1

My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement Votes: 1

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. Votes: 1

Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept. Votes: 1

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by. Votes: 1

Every problem has a solution; it may sometimes just need another perspective. Votes: 1

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them. Votes: 1

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see. Votes: 1

Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective Votes: 1

Just like salt makes sweet taste sweeter, trials make happy feel happier. Votes: 1

The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity. Votes: 1

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones. Votes: 1

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act. Votes: 1

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities; it's a lack of perspective. Votes: 1

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. Votes: 1

Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies? Votes: 1

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself. Votes: 1

If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest. Votes: 1

Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action. Votes: 1

The way you perceive your Self is what enables, or disables, you. Votes: 1

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back. Votes: 1

Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view. Votes: 1

Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me. Votes: 1

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing. Votes: 1

A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective. Votes: 1

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing. Votes: 1

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N Votes: 1

The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. Votes: 1

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning. Votes: 1

To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood. Votes: 1

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in. Votes: 1

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way. Votes: 1

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked. Votes: 1

The choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. Votes: 1

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view. Votes: 1

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you. Votes: 1

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs- Votes: 1

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you. Votes: 1

He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line. Votes: 1

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. Votes: 1

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. Votes: 1

Mujizat gampang terlihat dari sudut pandang takhayul.Miracles are easily seen from superstitious perspective. Votes: 1

Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate. Votes: 1

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. Votes: 1

What happens to us are tiny matters compared to us response to any situation. Votes: 1

The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such. Votes: 1

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. Votes: 1

A big thing will remain a big thing until a bigger thing will occur. Votes: 1

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. Votes: 1

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. Votes: 1

Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at. Votes: 1

No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow. Votes: 1

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. Votes: 1

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective. Votes: 1

If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song. Votes: 1

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing. Votes: 1

I will pursue the dream, no matter how long it takes to fulfil it. Votes: 1

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. Votes: 1

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are. Votes: 1

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it. Votes: 1

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally. Votes: 1

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. Votes: 1

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective. Votes: 1

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. Votes: 1

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. Votes: 1

As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view,And a quiet soul. Votes: 1

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present. Votes: 1

Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become. Votes: 1

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective. Votes: 1

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Votes: 1

Sometimes you don't need to change what you're looking at only get a better view. Votes: 1

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see. Votes: 1

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take. Votes: 1

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now? Votes: 1

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time. Votes: 1

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly. Votes: 1

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. Votes: 1

You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed. Votes: 1

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors? Votes: 1

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others. Votes: 1

The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life. Votes: 1

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history. Votes: 1

Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side. Votes: 1

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves Votes: 1

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. Votes: 1

Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene? Votes: 1

Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life. Votes: 1

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you. Votes: 1

Incidentally, the world is magical.Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment. Votes: 1

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. Votes: 1

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean. Votes: 1

loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world. Votes: 1

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. Votes: 1

Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles. Votes: 1

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. Votes: 1

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life. Votes: 1

When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't. Votes: 1

...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history... Votes: 1

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Votes: 1

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing. Votes: 1

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. Votes: 1

It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me. Votes: 1

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Votes: 1

If you want to see your life, you have to see through the eyes of another. Votes: 1

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are. Votes: 1

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us. Votes: 1

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine. Votes: 1

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. Votes: 1

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends. Votes: 1

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently Votes: 1

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are. Votes: 1

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously. Votes: 1

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men. Votes: 1

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. Votes: 1

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe. Votes: 1

We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now. Votes: 1

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams. Votes: 1

For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,on the star tree,pale with luminousocean leaves. Votes: 1

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons. Votes: 1

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it. Votes: 1

Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps. Votes: 1

Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up. Votes: 1

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. Votes: 1

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future. Votes: 1

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. Votes: 1

Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life. Votes: 1

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words. Votes: 1

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own. Votes: 1

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are. Votes: 1

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. Votes: 1

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream. Votes: 1

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview. Votes: 1

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow. Votes: 1

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Votes: 1

Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad from worse. Votes: 1

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song. Votes: 1

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him. Votes: 1

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions. Votes: 1

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE. Votes: 1

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts". Votes: 1

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning. Votes: 1

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin. Votes: 1

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater. Votes: 1

There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective. Votes: 1

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. Votes: 1

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? Votes: 1

MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you... Votes: 1

I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you've known your whole life. Votes: 1

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. Votes: 1

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray! Votes: 1

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to. Votes: 1

Women should have nipples on their butts. From a design perspective, I think it would revolutionize the fashion industry. Votes: 1

It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you. Votes: 1

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. Votes: 1

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path. Votes: 1

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life. Votes: 1

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. Votes: 1

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. Votes: 1

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective. Votes: 1

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down. Votes: 1

I had a dream about you last night... and in it you said "Chin up; it only gets harder. Votes: 1

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons. Votes: 1

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- Votes: 1

...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!... Votes: 1

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference. Votes: 1

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it. Votes: 1

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. Votes: 1

Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say Votes: 1

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also. Votes: 1

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be. Votes: 1

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. Votes: 1

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought. Votes: 1

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. Votes: 1

Count the cost of everything.Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourself, "What is my value? Votes: 1

...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ... Votes: 1

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Votes: 1

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant. Votes: 1

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts. Votes: 1

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. Votes: 1

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that? Votes: 1

We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers. Votes: 1

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough. Votes: 1

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind. Votes: 1

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Votes: 1

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind. Votes: 1

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. Votes: 1

All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world. Votes: 1

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance. Votes: 1

The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it. Votes: 1

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day. Votes: 1

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it. Votes: 1

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal Votes: 1

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense. Votes: 1

Life is something like a doctor's prescription: taken alone, and the ingredients might kill you; but properly blended, they bring healing. Votes: 1

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking. Votes: 1

Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure. Votes: 1

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order. Votes: 1

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad. Votes: 1

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one. Votes: 1

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. Votes: 1

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed. Votes: 1

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw. Votes: 1

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. Votes: 1

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. Votes: 1

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl Votes: 1

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits. Votes: 1

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity. Votes: 1

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Votes: 1

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean? Votes: 1

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed. Votes: 1

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different. Votes: 1

Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power. Votes: 1

My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it. Votes: 1

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive. Votes: 1

Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses. Votes: 1

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. Votes: 1

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet. Votes: 1

My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you. Votes: 1

Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all. Votes: 1

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem. Votes: 1

Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be. Votes: 1

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. Votes: 1

Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of Votes: 1

The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time. Votes: 1

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself. Votes: 1

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there. Votes: 1

If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation. Votes: 1

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it. Votes: 1

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is. Votes: 1

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her. Votes: 1

...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves... Votes: 1

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective. Votes: 1

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them, Votes: 1

As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do. Votes: 1

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks. Votes: 1

My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life. Votes: 1

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ... Votes: 1

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered. Votes: 1

Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective. Votes: 1

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. Votes: 1

...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves... Votes: 1

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. Votes: 1

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression. Votes: 1

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Votes: 1

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in. Votes: 1

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Votes: 1

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought. Votes: 1

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty. Votes: 1

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling. Votes: 1

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense. Votes: 1

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril Votes: 1

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside. Votes: 1

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. Votes: 1

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. Votes: 1

Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time. Votes: 1

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Votes: 1

With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes. Votes: 1

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be. Votes: 1

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left. Votes: 1

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. Votes: 1

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses. Votes: 1

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before. Votes: 1

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed. Votes: 1

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. Votes: 1

All the anxiety over small things had burned off me in the fire of reentry, the fire of being afraid I was going to die. Votes: 1

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. Votes: 1

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark. Votes: 1

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another. Votes: 1

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything. Votes: 1

You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven]. Votes: 1

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see? Votes: 1

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek. Votes: 1

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible. Votes: 1

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening. Votes: 1

There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don't even come close; but it's the perception that creates the most conflict every time. Votes: 1

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality? Votes: 1

I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases. Votes: 1

He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right. Votes: 1

Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love. Votes: 1

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. Votes: 1

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important. Votes: 1

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found. Votes: 1

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do. Votes: 1

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. Votes: 1

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. Votes: 1

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home. Votes: 1

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. Votes: 1

We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless. Votes: 1

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. Votes: 1

If you ever wanna be motivated, go try and be homeless for a day and that will just light a fire under your butt like none other. Votes: 1

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future. Votes: 1

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age. Votes: 1

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. Votes: 1

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem. Votes: 1

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive. Votes: 1

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence. Votes: 1

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'? Votes: 1

You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy. Votes: 1

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise. Votes: 1

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response. Votes: 1

I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once. Votes: 1

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it? Votes: 1

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try. Votes: 1

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside. Votes: 1

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance. Votes: 1

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality. Votes: 1

If everything was perfect in your life won't it be a predictable one. Life is unpredictable chaotic and madness but that's what makes life interesting won't you agree? Votes: 1

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy. Votes: 1

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that. Votes: 1

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history. Votes: 1

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible. Votes: 1

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him. Votes: 1

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object. Votes: 1

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down? Votes: 1

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track. Votes: 1

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. Votes: 1

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words. Votes: 1

Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective Votes: 1

The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives are all wrong. You miss so much of the transitory beauty of life. Votes: 1

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are. Votes: 1

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a 'how to' for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time. Votes: 1

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it! Votes: 1

I had this dream about you. We went hunting up in the mountains and I caught a unicorn. You told me now I know how it feels to be you. Votes: 1

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns. Votes: 1

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think? Votes: 1

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own. Votes: 1

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it. Votes: 1

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille. Votes: 1

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future. Votes: 1

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. Votes: 1

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty. Votes: 1

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put it in perspective. Votes: 1

Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world. Votes: 1

Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said."Me? Of course not!""Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes. Votes: 1

A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving. Votes: 1

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns. Votes: 1

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom. Votes: 1

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. Votes: 1

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Votes: 1

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch? Votes: 1

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it Votes: 1

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself Votes: 1

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one. Votes: 1

Sometimes I lose perspective, but it helps to stop and look around. I may not have it all, but I have more than enough. And enough, it seems, is more than most have... Votes: 1

He who sits/stands in front of the fire sees more than the flames.. He feels the heat! Too often from a distance others observe the flames only as a source of light. Votes: 1

But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read. Votes: 1

I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story. Votes: 1

Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it. Votes: 1