Perspective Quotes - Page 14

while it’s five in the morning here, it’s also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.

Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds.

One must always forgive another's passion.

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.

You can change your perspective on any experience by given it a positive and empowering meaning.

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.

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

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

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

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.

The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.

I don’t see the me that you see. I wish for just a lit­tle bit I could climb into you and then you could climb into me and then we could tell each other what we saw there.

A man makes choices,” Tal said.“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.

If you are serious about achieving your desired goals, be willing to let go of the small pleasures found in the moment that may sabotage your chances of experiencing true pleasure when the sacrifice is paid.

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

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic.

You receive the gift of time freely and equally every day, beautifully wrapped in twenty-four new hours to invest in whatever you want, and how you use each hour decides your success or the lack of it

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead.

Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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.

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

Don’t live your life in the future without any planned rewards for your effort and sacrifices today.

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.

Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me…

If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.

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

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

The pursuit of happiness seems worthwhile only because of the chase. You love it only if you don’t realize you’re never going to catch up.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

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

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

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

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

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

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

When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up.

Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?

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

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

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

To be successful choose an area of focus in life. It will identify where your energy should be invested and (more importantly) the source of your joy and success.

Your words reveal your wants but your actions reveal your expectations.

We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling through space, missing the stars by inches.

Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

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.

Do what you feel is right and good. There will always be haters and naysayers..and their problem..is just that..their problem!

Gratitude washes all of my worries and my stress away.

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

The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.

The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.

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

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

The journey is where we find perspective.

Worship is the launching pad for life.

We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must renounce this too, this especially. God's world is not the problem; our attitude is. God does not want us to renounce the unspeakably beautiful world he gave us as creation, as gift, as it really is. He wants us to renounce it as creator, as our god, as it really is not. This wonderful world is our God-given house to live in and to live the love of God in. But God's bride must learn not to love her house as if it were her husband.