Perspective Quotes

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

~ Neil Gaiman

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.

~ Habeeb Akande

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

~ Criss Jami

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

~ Criss Jami

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and boring. This is where true creativity and massive perceptive abilities spawn a sense of intellectual humility; the kind which God adores.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ William Ralph Inge

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--

~ Robert Murray Mccheyne

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.

~ Angela N. Blount

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

~ Criss Jami

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

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view.

~ Toba Beta

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.

~ Anonymous

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.

~ Annie Dillard

What you see is highly dependent on how you look.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

~ Germany Kent

Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.

~ Criss Jami

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!

~ C. Joybell C.

Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.

~ Germany Kent

Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.

~ Jessica Fechtor

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

~ Suzy Kassem

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.

~ Kristi Bowman

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

~ Seth D.

People often think of humility as the act of saying 'I am not that great.' This is lack of confidence. True humility is looking at the amazing people throughout history and saying 'I am pretty great... but I can always be greater.

~ Matthew Goldfinger

Happiness is a frame of mind. It is a state of thinking. It is an attitude, a headset, a mentality. Happiness is a disposition and demeanor. It is a mood and sensibility. It is a philosophy, a notion, a tone, an outlook and perspective. Happiness is all of these things, none of which exist separate from me. They cannot be extracted or stolen because they constitute my very being. Therefore, happiness must be the natural essence of me.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

~ Germany Kent

Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.

~ Germany Kent

You are the ocean, everything else is just waves and wind.

~ Steve Maraboli

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

It is very sad that most of us just aren’t grateful for what we have. If you’re reading this, I think it’s safe to assume that you’re not homeless. You’re not blind. You might be ill, but you’re still alive. And yet, we find it hard to be thankful. To see the gift each day brings us. It is from this lack of true gratitude that we become sad. We have told ourselves over and over that we aren’t happy. That our lives aren’t good. That we’re no good.

~ S.r. Crawford

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

~ Allen Ginsberg

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

~ Alain De Botton

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.

~ Daniel Wallace

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.

~ Richie Singh

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