Perspective can be the focus of your life in every area. The events you experience may vary depending on your perspective. Having a happy and positive life depends on how you look at life. Famous perspective quotes will change how you view the world, open your eyes up to the beauty in front of you, your mind to the possibility and always bring you happiness with a better outlook on life.
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Quotes on Perspective
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
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. Douglas Adams
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. Stephen R. Covey
There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox. Nicholas Sparks
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey
One person’s craziness is another person’s reality. Tim Burton
Humans see what they want to see. Rick Riordan
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr
Songs are as sad as the listener. Jonathan Safran Foer
We’re so self important. So arrogant. Everybody’s going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven’t learned how to care for one another. We’re gonna save the fuckin planet? And, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin great. It’s been here over four billion years. The planet isn’t goin anywhere, folks. We are! We’re goin away. Pack your shit, we’re goin away. And we won’t leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we’ll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed end biological mistake. George Carlin
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. C.G. Jung
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be. George Carlin
It’s all in the mind. George Harrison
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. Amit Ray
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Ansel Adams
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, What else could this mean? Shannon L. Alder
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. Martha Graham
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. George Carlin
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. Irving Berlin
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. Robertson Davies
It’s amazing that a thin film of plastic wrap is enough to protect food against the aggression of hungry marauders. Or maybe the plastic cover doesn’t act as a shield, but rather the starving mob is staved off by one simple word Leftovers. Jarod Kintz
Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. Joss Whedon
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before. Anne Rice
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. Bertrand Russell
And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. José Saramago
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. Douglas Adams
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. Stephen R. Covey
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. Mark Haddon
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. Colin Powell
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. Oscar Wilde
No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson
What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us. Rabih Alameddine
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. J.M. Barrie
The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. Erwin Schrödinger
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say It’s as plain as the nose on your face. But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? Isaac Asimov
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. Martha Graham
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange
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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith
When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages. Criss Jami
You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality. Steve Maraboli
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be. Margaret Atwood
When it seems like the sky is about to collapse, relax, that’s just the roof caving in. Jarod Kintz
I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck. Bill Hicks
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is infinite. William Blake
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright
There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that. Joss Whedon
One person’s craziness is another person’s reality. Tim Burton
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. John Lubbock
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be. George Carlin
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. Criss Jami
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. J.M. Barrie
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. Don Miguel Ruiz
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright
Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good. Theodore Kaczynski
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. John Irving
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. George Carlin
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. Chuck Palahniuk
It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. Germany Kent
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P.G. Wodehouse
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. Irvin D. Yalom
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. Chuck Palahniuk
Electricity is really just organized lighting. George Carlin
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. Criss Jami
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. Corrie Ten Boom
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. Hayao Miyazaki
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say It’s as plain as the nose on your face. But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? Isaac Asimov
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. Claudia Gray
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. Wayne W. Dyer
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending. That depends on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. Jane Yolen
Distance lends enchantment to the view. Mark Twain
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow. Aaron Lauritsen
Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P.G. Wodehouse
The best things in life aren’t things. Art Buchwald
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller
