Browsing Topic Best Perspective Quotes

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Your perspective is unique. It’s important and it counts.

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions whereas negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

In every moment, in everything that happens, you can look on the bright side of something… There are two ways of seeing almost everything.

Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

From the world’s perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand to catch your tears and a heart to listen to your every longing. True peace comes only from God.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else’s perspective.

Perspective is a gift nowadays.

If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth…

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance – because there’s two sides to every question. That doesn’t mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there’s always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen.

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)