Perspective Quotes

You know what feels good to most of us when these obstacles, stresses and concerns consume us? Eating a dozen, warm chocolate chip cookies.Sure, there's always a time for chocolate chip cookies, but they aren't a solution to our problems. Neither is skipping the gym. Abandoning yet another weight loss attempt because life got too hard shouldn't be an option. It's no doubt annoying to have to count calories and keep burning calories when the world is going to hell around us, but it's important to keep perspective if you're actually going to be successful in losing weight. The perspective is that even through the pain and discomfort from a death, move, job loss, or general stress might last weeks, months, or even years, it is all temporary. Good health is, too.

~ Shawn Weeks

When you’re here, an i in the Ocean, you’re no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you’re here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive, that you are.

~ Jean-Pierre Weill

All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.

~ Jennifer Ott

Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective

~ Colleen Hoover

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

~ Bill Bryson

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

~ Philip Zaleski

If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years.Would we know we were together?

~ Natasha Tsakos

Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

~ Suzy Kassem

The most beautiful women in the world are the ones that can stand as rivals on the battlefield of love, yet they can still see each other’s pain. They can set down their swords for only just a moment to acknowledge the beauty of the warrior that stands before them—the passion, the fearlessness and the relentless fire that never gives up. It is in this moment that we learn that it is not the man that sees the worth of the hearts torn by battle in his honor; it is the women who have suffered for so long. Two women that can “see” clearly the worth of the other, even while they grow weary from their wounds is the only kind of beauty that matters. For if there wasn’t two worthy opponents there would be no war in love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Right or Wrong, most times, merely depends on perspective. It takes humility (not necessarily logic) to let go of our egos to see through the other person's eyes. But I guess even I, myself, can't let go to see why you'd object.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

~ Greg Cootsona

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, What was my name?

~ Jim Bouton

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

~ Philip Zaleski

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

~ Davis Miller

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.

~ C.s. Lewis

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

~ Gordon S. Wood

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, it’s appreciating the fact that I have already received the privilege of living life which in and of itself will fill the whole of my ledger for the whole of my life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.

~ Thomas Szasz

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are...if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful eye, they will find something to celebrate even in the worst of circumstances...Having a good eye in life changes how you see yourself and everything around you... your focus determines your reality.

~ Mark Batterson

No one could endure lasting adversity if it continued to have the same force as when it first hit us. We are all tied to Fortune, some by a loose and golden chain, and others by a tight one of baser metal: but what does it matter? We are all held in the same captivity, and those who have bound others are themselves in bonds - unless you think perhaps that the left-hand chain is lighter. One man is bound by high office, another by wealth; good birth weighs down some, and a humble origin others; some bow under the rule of other men and some under their own; some are restricted to one place by exile, others by priesthoods: all life is a servitude.So you have to get used to your circumstances, complain about them as little as possible, and grasp whatever advantage they have to offer: no condition is so bitter that a stable mind cannot find some consolation in it.

~ Seneca

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Gratitude washes all of my worries and my stress away.

~ Akiroq Brost

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

~ John Piper

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

~ Edith Hamilton

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

~ Yuval Levin

We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.

~ Andy Andrews

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

~ Charles Emmerson

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

~ James A. Owen