Perspective Quotes
Carl Sagan
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
4435 A.J. Darkholme
We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.
4129 A.J. Darkholme
No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.
1156 Douglas Adams
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.
1633 George Carlin
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
1726 Amit Ray
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
2654 Amit Ray
Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.
3686 Joss Whedon
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
1317 A.J. Darkholme
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.
3971 A.J. Darkholme
The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.
4361 Richelle E. Goodrich
Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design - individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.
3095 Joseph J. Ellis
If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.
1882 J.J. Scarisbrick
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.
2828 Anthony Liccione
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.
4050 A.J. Darkholme
Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.
2880 A.J. Darkholme
Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.
2449 J.M. Barrie
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
2827 Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
4959 Ashly Lorenzana
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.
3402 Vera Nazarian
Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.
2985 Michel De Montaigne
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
3813 Orison Swett Marden
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
2570 Joss Whedon
There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.
2076 Steven Wright
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
1098 P.G. Wodehouse
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
4730 Horace Walpole
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
4586 Masashi Kishimoto
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?
3672 Joan F. Marques
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.
2163 Beyoncé Knowles
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
3514 Whoopi Goldberg
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
3041 John Lubbock
What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.
1471 Corrie Ten Boom
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
4042 Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
4327 Richard Avedon
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
3149 Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.
Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.
4510 Neil Gaiman
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
4461 E.E. Cummings
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.
1543 Claudia Gray
Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.
1180 Toba Beta
When you feel life at crossroads,
you need higher perspective view.
1886 Unknown Author
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.
3451 Annie Dillard
There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China.
To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000.
See? Nothing to it.
1339 J.S.B. Morse
I've learned far too much to know everything.
4730 C. JoyBell C.
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!
1038 Kristi Bowman
You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.
4521 Seth D.
Be like the flower, content with its nature.
2810 Robert Murray McCheyne
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-
4306 Richelle E. Goodrich
It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.
3638 Richelle E. Goodrich
There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.
4192 Donald L. Hicks
Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective.
Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more.
Not that hard is it?
2356 Dennis Hopper
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.
1688 Jake Jesser
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'?
4137 Habeeb Akande
I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.
2770 William R. Inge
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.
5000 Angela N. Blount
Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.
1718 Elizabeth George
Looking at your day from a “golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.
4013 Laura Lane
When we see everyone the way God sees them, all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths,we can learn to treat them tenderly. We must also view ourselves from God's perspective: lovingly, tenderly, and patiently. We can do the same with our spouses and other children or family members.
1951 Alain De Botton
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
2237 Richie Singh
Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places.
And they're just a matter of perspective.
What changed my perspective, was her.
4576 Daniel Wallace
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
3005 Carl Sagan
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
3657 Oscar Wilde
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
2897 Jennifer Haigh
The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.
2779 Joseph Campbell
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
1555 Mary McCarthy
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
2175 Derek Landy
It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.
3055 Brian A. Jackson
Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.
2286 Lailah Gifty Akita
After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life.
1188 Buky Ojelabi
t’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.
2404 Rob Liano
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.
1430 Buky Ojelabi
The older I get, the more I realize that I am not just the student, but I am my own teacher as well.
4346 Gino Norris
MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...
1003 Michaelangelo
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.
1616 Seamus Heaney
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
2944 Chris Prentiss
What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.
1582 Chris Prentiss
When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.
4486 Chris Vonada
Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.
1420 Bob Proctor
The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.
2375 A.J. Darkholme
Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.
1797 Crystal Woods
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.
2011 Enrico Bombieri
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
1797 Vera Nazarian
Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.
Art is a casual pursuit of significance.
Let's keep it in perspective.
3608 Carl Sagan
We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.
4627 C.S. Lewis
All science is based on observation: all our observations are taken DURING Humpty Dumpty's fall, because we were born after he lost his seat on the wall and shall be extinct long before he reaches the ground.
4007 Rebecca Goldstein
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?
2803 Frank Borman
When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we live together like decent people?
4865 Gregory Peck
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
4750 C.S. Lewis
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
1561 Edmund Spenser
Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
3405 Chris Burkmenn
We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.
2129 Gary Rohrmayer
As missional leaders we need to see God as:
Bigger than the problems we endure.
Bigger than the pressures we experience.
Bigger than the people who criticize us.
Bigger than the pain we suffer.
Bigger than the praise we receive.
Bigger than the pride in our hearts.
4536 Joseph J. Ellis
If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.
2712 Elizabeth George
God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.
3795 Elizabeth George
When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.
4005 MercyMe
Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?
3726 Robertson Davies
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.
4825 Bill Hicks
I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.
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