Perspective Quotes

Everyone knows that the teenage years are a time ofprofound emotion. The moody, exuberant, passionate,lethargic teen is a figure that has a special place in the hall of fame of clichés—and for good reason. It’s all true. When we ourselves are teenagers, we are living life as it comes. There is no point in reflection. We are so inexperienced, there is very little to reflect on. If we fail a big test, we just move on. We win an award and we smile and say thank you. We fall in love and it’s a thrill. We get our hearts broken and we suffer.And we feel all of these highs and lows in our absolute core; it feels as if it’s never happened to anyone else because it’s never happened to us before. Only later can we look back in the comfort that perspective brings.

~ Rob Lowe

Don't over-focus on the negatives and under-focus the positives in your life.

~ Lalah Delia

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

~ Paul Bowles

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

~ Criss Jami

It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.

~ Nicole Krauss

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

~ Hermann Hesse

With time comes perspective.

~ Joshua Wisenbaker

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.

~ Mitch Albom

You are ruled by whatever you invest your time, energy and emotions into. Check in with yourself. What is taking up your time and energy? Where is the focus of your emotions? If there are not where you want them to be, course correct. Remember, whatever you give energy to grows. So grow everything good and beneficial that will also help bring you to a better space and frame of mind. Make the best of each day, of each moment. Give time, love and attention to those and that which you love.

~ Akiroq Brost

Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, forward and backward, this way and that. But perspective is an illusion, for we know all things begin somewhere.

~ Sara Ella

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

~ Enrico Bombieri

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

~ Vera Nazarian

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

~ Carl Sagan

The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible.

~ Natasha Tsakos

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

No two persons ever read the same book.

~ Edmund Wilson

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

~ Suzy Kassem

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

~ Amit Ray

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

~ Steve Goodier

We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, we’re going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that line or the other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.

~ Blake Crouch

Perfection is born of imperfection.

~ Richie Norton

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

~ David Foster Wallace

Raise the bar higher than your opinion...

~ Gino Norris

I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment,but an inclination to what feels right.

~ Natasha Tsakos

If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.

~ Suzy Kassem

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.

~ Andrew Roberts

Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.

~ Jasmine Warga

Different men view the same things in different ways. And the same men in the course of a few years alter their whole view of life. They have simply changed their companions on the road. Indeed the breaking with one set of people and the forming ties of friendship with others of a different type is often but the outward evidence and result of a hidden and inward change of the more intimate friendships of the mind.

~ Basil W. Maturin

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur, it's a delusion of insignificance.

~ Steve Maraboli

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.

~ Noam Chomsky

A hero is a matter of perspective. The only sure thing in war is casualties. Ideology, patriotism and religious zeal all fuel heroic notions.

~ Matt Hawkins

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?

~ Jay Woodman

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

~ Dara Torres

Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter regarding what we can experience and learn. Our inaugurating dreams are unlimited by physical reality and our genetic composition. There will always be an unbridgeable rift between countless combinations of human dreams and the infinity of reality, unless we accept what we are without wishing to be something else.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

For me to simply tell you to find your life’s purpose, would only worsen your anxiety, not make it better. But that’s not what I want you to do. I simply want you to realise that there is something to be found. That your calling is still out there, and that’s why you might be unhappy.

~ S.r. Crawford