Perspective Quotes

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

~ Amy Neftzger

What you remembered? Probably. More or less. Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.

~ Neil Gaiman

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

~ Tan Twan Eng

I know little of magic, Lady,' he said haltingly. 'I am but a woodcutter's son, and there is much that is not given to men to understand; but of this I am sure: there is more to things than we imagine. Beyond the stars are worlds without number, perhaps, and had I never sought to look beyond my own I should be the poorer for it.

~ Sylvia Engdahl

When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

~ Martin Luther

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.

~ Stephen King

When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

~ Charles Dickens

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

~ E.m. Forster

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

~ George Eliot

If you can't see the sun then too many things stand in your way. Sometimes, you have to climb to the top of all your fears to see any horizon, such is life. God needs to you rise higher before you will ever see something different.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, my past gripes - primarily boring meetings, back-biting office politics and pantyhose - were just whining.

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

~ Charles Dickens

There are things we cannot vocalise because the repercussions of particular thoughts have the power to break lives.

~ F.k. Preston

There is a difference between perspective and perception. Perspective is a personal idea about certain events, based on the impressions, experiences or information available to the mind, while the perception is a momentary thought about the situation, event or people, purely based on the past experience or impressions.

~ Roshan Sharma

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

~ James Thornton

He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I love you, but I’m more in love with myself and that’s the problem.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible?

~ Dominic Riccitello

Changing your attitude, your outlook, your mindset, perspective, disposition, or mood—they all mean controlling where you allow your thoughts to linger.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also.

~ Nin

A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

~ Lee J. Colan

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

~ Seneca

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

~ Randy Alcorn

Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so--it's an innate urge with them, something that they do as a matter of course, without even thinking about the psychological benefits of being alone. These people are very fortunate, for they help themselves in a very important way on a regular basis. Other people are given solitude involuntarily--with me it came from my insecurities and my inability to fit in with others. For me, solitude was very often loneliness, and very often painful. But I know now that I made it painful because of my perspective, and I regret losing so many opportunities that being on my own opened up to me--I'll never be able to get them back. Find or make time for yourself to be with yourself. Spend time thinking about who you are and who you want to be. Examine your strengths and focus on possibilities. Find the friend inside who has accomplished a lot, and learn to love yourself on your own terms. If you can do this, you've taken a very important step towards being able to help others to learn about themselves and to be more content with life.

~ Tom Walsh

You need not have any motivation but the motivation to overpower your mind.

~ Avina Celeste

People assume that repetition is always a static thing, but I beg to differ. Repetition is just as often the complete opposite of that: or a sign of rapid personal growth. In this repetition manifests one's ability to go on experiencing again the very same thing from a different perspective and in a brand-new light.

~ Criss Jami

It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it’s my point of view.

~ Steve Goodier

The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.

~ Bob Proctor

The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.”― Bob Proctor

~ Bob Proctor

Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.

~ Soul Dancer

4 Don’t Die™ Principles:• Change your awareness and your perspective changes.• You teach what you need to learn.• You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you cannot do both.• Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?

~ Tony Curl

I opened my eyes today to a world that felt alien. For though things resembled the familiar, nothing was the same. Walls I once considered confining, crumbled at the slightest shove. Mountains that for ages had barred my view now faded, transparent. Meandering roads stretched out as straight as an arrow, void of stop signs. Obstacles no longer stood stationary. Pinnacles loomed within reach. Beasts were tame, bullies timid, wagging tongues all tied into knots, and in the palm of my hand glistened the end of a glorious rainbow. It took but a moment to realize that in my newfound sight, everything I’d ever longed for was accessible. Incredibly, the only thing that had really changed was the way I saw the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru