Perspective Quotes

Silence speaks volumes, especially is you're quietly listening.

~ Akiroq Brost

We are inspired only when we seek to be inspired. Then inspiration can be found in everyone and everything.

~ Akiroq Brost

If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere.

~ Akiroq Brost

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I don’t argue with fools, I educate.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Meditate, Clear, Calm, Center, Ground, Empty your mind, Stillness. Be receptive to a new approach. Believe in the possibilities of new opportunities.

~ Akiroq Brost

The whole present moment was a celebration, it always had been, all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.

~ Narissa Doumani

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

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

~ Wayne Dyer

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to predict the future is why people find themselves stuck and unable to move forward. They don't want to feel the emotions of failure. They prefer to talk themselves into settling for an okay life, rather than the life they really want. However, failure is a matter of perspective! Is it not failure when you don't take a chance on the one thing you need? There is no happiness in regret, staying safe or settling for anything less than what you can have through action.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs down a person’s potential.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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

A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving.

~ Kemi Sogunle

He wasn’t my boyfriend, but he was something. Someone who made a positive impact on my life regardless of the negative. He changed my perspective for the better and made me who I am in this very second. I appreciate, cherish, and thank him for it; and I will for this life and into any life that may come.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Actions do not need to be changed, just change your vision.

~ Dada Bhagwan

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don't hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn't have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It was magic to be above [the clouds], to see their uppermost contours, the way they caught the light and held it, their vast shadows moving upon the face of the earth. I wished I could open the window and know what the world sounded like at that altitude. I thought about the solitude of that world, how it must be inhabited by the voice of the wind, only. ... I thought about what my crows saw as they flew above canyons and treetops, the birds-eye view of life. They would recognize specific trees, perches, and nesting sites from a completely different perspective than I could. Their maps differed from mine; they knew the topography, the contours of the landscape, on a much grander scale.

~ Elizabeth J. Church

If I only looked at what I've lost, I'd never be able to see what I have.

~ Cindy Charlton

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.

~ Sol Luckman

It was something new for her. New roads, new people, new places, new opportunities and new perspective. This is the one thing that inevitably moves a person through the grief. Growth heals grief.

~ Kate Mcgahan

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, Come on – appreciate your wife!

~ Jeremy Camp

What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?

~ Jodi Picoult

Life is not steady, you'll be happy at times, sad at time's, all we have to do is be patient, for a moment of happiness is worth a thousand moments of sadness and dread.

~ Maitha Alshamsi

The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible stuff and a horrible job holding on to the good. Or at least we're like that until we learn how to not be like that.

~ Kevin Breel

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

~ Emmuska Orczy

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.

~ Whipplesnaith

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or waste your time trying to look right, you will never achieve contentment and emotional balance. People you encounter in life can’t be controlled by you. You only have control of yourself. Build your life around a relationship with a higher power and achieving what you’re passionate about. When you let go of what you can’t control, true peace can then enter your life. This is the path to achieving emotional balance.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don’t go to Men about God. Go to God about Men.

~ Todd Stocker

The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.

~ Mario J. Lucero

Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you.

~ J.s. Campbell

[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective, begin to see the patterns and dead ends of their pasts, and a way out. That's the funny thing about mazes; what's baffling on the ground begins to make sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself.

~ Wally Lamb

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

~ Samuel Johnson

...I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.

~ Jane Smiley

I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again.

~ Michael Knight

Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.

~ Garth Risk Hallberg