Perspective:
Do you always look at life from the same point-of-view?
Consider viewing a situation as another might view it.
Look from behind, underneath, from the distant heavens.
View the situation as someone of a different religion,
race, or nationality might view it.
Pretend you are an alien from a distant galaxy -
that should be good for a laugh.
Troubles only appear troubling to those close to them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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