Perspective Quotes

Darkness within clouds the world without.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

~ Michael R. French

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

~ Criss Jami

Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful.

~ Nikki Rowe

A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Eventually I’ll stop writing about you and it’ll be bittersweet. Not because I’m not in love with you, but because I’ll just love you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

When someone says they love you, don’t believe it. Love is shown with actions and not words.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I write the right. I do the left.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We do things because we want it, not because they’re good for us.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I remember things like dates down to minutes, what they smelled like, how they walked and how they tug their hands in their pockets. I twine myself in nostalgia of moments and not necessarily the people in them. I long for the idea of the past and occasionally forget the present. I find myself lost in memories, just looking to recreate the moment; forgetting the past is in the past and what we have is now.

~ Dominic Riccitello

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…

~ Bernard Cornwell

Every person fails, nobody achieves everything that he or she set out to achieve. Nobody, regardless of how many personal triumphs they enjoy, no matter how rich or powerful they become, goes through life without encountering failure. You cannot fail unless a person valiantly tries to accomplish a task. The most audacious person readily attempts difficult projects, despite feeling uncertain if they can prevail. Successful people exhibit the character to respond positively to failure. Some failures prove instrumental in altering a person’s outlook, and their revised perspective leads to brilliant successes

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Compassion for oneself requires a willingness to step OUTside your own story and see it with loving eyes, the courage to recognize truth and follow new leads, the wish for your own heart to heal and the intention to add a vibrant rhythm to enhance the greater dance around you as you begin to join in.

~ Laurie Perez

KEY OF LIFEThe key of lifeSymbolizes the mapOf existence.Once you free yourselfFrom all resistance,Your path will become white -For the remainder of the distance.Poetry by Suzy Kassem

~ Suzy Kassem

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Most attribute the domain of night to evil because they can't see. People fear the shadows of the night because shadows represent the unknown, and the unknown is frightening. They assume evil lurks behind every shadow, in every corner not illuminated. But their fear of the unknown is often what really terrifies them. They find comfort seeing in the daylight for that reason, but the irony is they are often more blinded by their comfort than by the shadow of night. It's a pity. If they could overcome their fear of the unknown they might realize that the unknown is not evil, it is simply an opportunity waiting to be explored. The night is no more a domain of evil than the daylight, both were created good, both have evil lurking in them. When you can overcome your fear, the night becomes a domain of beauty interlaced with danger, and that is exciting!

~ M.r. Laver

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, My heart resumed its place. Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

~ C. Brian Kelly

My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed. In the night of Power, its glimmer keeps the enemy forces at bay.

~ Raoul Vaneigem

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

~ Chris Burkmenn

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

~ Tim Burton

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

~ Diane Setterfield

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it

~ Henry James

The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.

~ Marty Rubin

When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been bestowed with.

~ Saim .A. Cheeda

Reality rarely changes, only does our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.

~ Chip St. Clair

Our perspective equals our reality, tweak the perspective and you tweak your reality.

~ Sam Owen

Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even assimilable to, your own. The impersonal Universe of Nature is only an abstraction, approximately true, of the factors which it is convenient to regard as common to all. The Universe of another is therefore necessarily unknown to, and unknowable by, you; but it induces currents of energy in yours by determining in part your reactions. Use men and women, therefore, with the absolute respect due to inviolable standards of measurement; verify your own observations by comparison with similar judgements made by them; and, studying the methods which determine their failure or success, acquire for yourself the wit and skill required to cope with your own problems.

~ Aleister Crowley

Unless we take the time to regain our perspective and face the reality that life is short, we risk arriving at a destination we didn’t choose—or at least one we wouldn’t prefer.

~ Michael Hyatt

Paradox /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Pawan Mishra

Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.

~ Pawan Mishra

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

~ Pawan Mishra

He who sits/stands in front of the fire sees more than the flames.. He feels the heat! Too often from a distance others observe the flames only as a source of light.

~ Lennox D. Lampkin

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

~ Jasper Fforde

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.

~ Criss Jami

Your perspectives change your realities.

~ Bryant Mcgill

People's realities are the result of their perceptions.

~ Karen Wojcik Berner

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

~ Anthony De Mello

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

~ Alphonse Karr