Perspective Quotes

“I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.

Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.”
― Bill Cosby

“Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases. . . . When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have--and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose. But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.”
― Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

“Everyone’s perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.”
― Fisher Amelie, Callum & Harper

“Who would you impress if the world was blind?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“As small as a world as large as alone.”
― E.E. Cummings

“You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].”
― Jennie Allen, Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul

“Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“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, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything

“Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life; how can you put his finger for him on the obdurate truths before which fear and horror are powerless? The sea that morning was iridescent and dark. My wife and my sister were swimming--Diana and Helen--and I saw their uncovered heads, black and gold in the dark water. I saw them come out and I saw that they were naked, unshy, beautiful, and full of grace, and I watched the naked women walk out of the sea.”
― John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever

“We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.”
― Jack Provonsha

“Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.

Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,—this is the very struggle of progress.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.”
― Sholem Aleichem

“A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don't hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn't have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.”
― Alfred Edersheim

“I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Don’t go to Men about God. Go to God about Men.”
― Todd Stocker

“How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe.  Having no power to remove him, I found that I could not go.

An awful thing sometime later befell me when the horse was removed from my toe.  Alone and with naught to secure me, I found I was forced to go.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“...I look out at the world through your transparent face...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.”
― Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles

“...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...”
― Peggy Herbert, Tales from Toothaker: How We Used Humor, Hard Work, and Hand-me-downs to Create an Island Home

“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.”
― Jacqui Stedmon

“Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.”
― Bruce Bickford

“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.”
― Thomas H. Cook, The Quest for Anna Klein: An Otto Penzler Book

“Semakin bersedia seseorang untuk menilai sesuatu dari sudut pandang orang lain yang berbeda, maka semakin beragamlah perspektifnya terhadap sesuatu tersebut.
Semakin beragam perspektifnya terhadap sesuatu tersebut, maka semakin dekatlah persepsinya dengan kebenaran utuh dan apa adanya akan sesuatu tersebut.
Inilah proses pembentukan sikap objektif dalam diri manusia.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity