We can train ourselves to view life
from more joyful perspectives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses.
I will look into that mirror little bits at a time.
SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able.
This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- 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
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
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
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
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.
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
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
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
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
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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