Perspective Quotes - Page 11

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

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

Martha Graham

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

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

John Irving

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

Jane Yolen

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

Hayao Miyazaki

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

IRVIN D.YALOM

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

Ian Fleming

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.

C.S. Lewis

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

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Neil Armstrong

The best things in life aren't things.

Art Buchwald

loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.

Wayne W. Dyer

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

Oscar Wilde

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Carl Sagan

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Joey Comeau

..there are two possible endings to every story.

Christie Watson

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on," his affirmation of the power of love.

J. Rufus Fears

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

German Proverb

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

H.W. Brands

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

John Howard Griffin

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

Harold Holzer

We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

Homer

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

David J Schwartz

We learn through stories and scenarios, and this book is all about stories and scenarios. The purpose of the scenarios in this book is to help you understand some typical situations that confront middle school kids and how you can address each situation. Each scenario has a story told from the multiple points of view of those most affected by the story's situation—by the kid, by the parents, by the teachers, and sometimes by a principal or other adult.

Dr. Kid Brain

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Jodi Picoult

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

James A. Owen

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.

Charles Emmerson

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

Yuval Levin

We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.

Andy Andrews

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

Edith Hamilton

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

John Piper

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Robert A. Heinlein

Gratitude washes all of my worries and my stress away.

Akiroq Brost

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

Richelle E. Goodrich

Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

Richelle E. Goodrich

No one could endure lasting adversity if it continued to have the same force as when it first hit us. We are all tied to Fortune, some by a loose and golden chain, and others by a tight one of baser metal: but what does it matter? We are all held in the same captivity, and those who have bound others are themselves in bonds - unless you think perhaps that the left-hand chain is lighter. One man is bound by high office, another by wealth; good birth weighs down some, and a humble origin others; some bow under the rule of other men and some under their own; some are restricted to one place by exile, others by priesthoods: all life is a servitude.So you have to get used to your circumstances, complain about them as little as possible, and grasp whatever advantage they have to offer: no condition is so bitter that a stable mind cannot find some consolation in it.

Seneca

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are...if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful eye, they will find something to celebrate even in the worst of circumstances...Having a "good eye" in life changes how you see yourself and everything around you... your focus determines your reality.

Mark Batterson

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

Thomas Szasz

Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, it’s appreciating the fact that I have already received the privilege of living life which in and of itself will fill the whole of my ledger for the whole of my life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?

Richelle E. Goodrich

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Rodney Dangerfield

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

Gordon S. Wood

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.

C.S. Lewis

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Barbara W. Tuchman

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

Davis Miller

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

Philip Zaleski

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