Life and Perspective Quotes

 “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

Anaïs Nin

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.”
Chris Pine

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
Helen Keller

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.”
Sterling K. Brown

“Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”
Muhammad Ali

“Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.”
Robert Morgan

“Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.”
Claudia Gray

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucious

“A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.”
Allen Klein

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
Lao Tzu

“If we don’t have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective.”
Wayne Thiebaud

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.”
John Lubbock

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
Alphonse Karr

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”’
Soren Kierkegaard

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
Wayne Dyer

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
George Eliot

“It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.”
Albert Einstein

“Never mistake motion for action.”
Ernest Hemingway

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
Ansel Adams

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
Neil Armstrong

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
Dorothea Lange

“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
Hans Margolius

“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
Henry Miller

“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every
man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counterparts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”
Kristen Zambucka

“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
Epictetus

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Bertrand Russell

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anaïs Nin

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
C.G. Jung

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
Stephen R. Covey

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
L.M. Montgomery

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”
Audrey Hepburn

“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”
Eckhart Tolle

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”
Albert Einstein

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
Don Miguel Ruiz

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
David Allen

“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
Irvin D. Yalom

“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
Martha Graham

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.”
Henry Ford

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
Dalai Lama

“Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.”
Joni Eareckson Tada

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.”
Harvey Mackay

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb

“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

“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
Peter Marshall

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin

“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”
Joseph Addison

“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
Aaron Lauritsen

“Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.”
Irving Berlin

“If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.”
Wayne Dyer