Viewpoints Quotes

“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.”
― Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading

“You limit yourself by reducing the number of viewpoints you see.”
― Meir Ezra

“However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don't.”
― Robert Trivers, Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

“If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Unity in the secular world and sadly among most Christian churches is based on uniformity of interest or viewpoints. The oneness in Jesus Christ crosses all boundaries and separations. Anyone with the faith of Jesus Christ can immediately enjoy the innate oneness with another who also has the faith of Jesus regardless of differing political or doctrinal views.”
― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

“Different versions of a true story”
― Margi Preus

“Dare to challenge your current view of your world.”
― Nityananda Das, Divine Union

“Direct action is not always the best way. It is a far greater victory to make another see through your eyes than to close theirs forever.”
― Kriea/Darth Traya

“SEE what you think.”
― Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints”
― Wilfred Peterson

“Isso é mais uma coisa que aprendi com o tempo, sabe? O bem e o mal não existem! Quer dizer, existir até que existem, mas apenas no contexto de uma pergunta importante: bem ou mal para quem? A questão é que tudo depende do ponto de vista, entende, filho? Pense numa partida de futebol, por exemplo. A vitória é ótima para o time que vence, mas a mesma vitória é amarga para quem perde. Não é?

Agora, imagine que jogadores dos dois times sejam entrevistados para falar da partida. Os que ganharam com certeza elogiarão a atuação do seu time, enfatizarão a importância dos pontos obtidos com a vitória. No entanto, o jogador do time que perdeu reclamará dos erros da equipe, das condições desfavoráveis do gramado, descerá o pau na arbitragem e coisa e tal. No fim, para uns o resultado terá sido justo, enquanto outros tenderão a se sentir injustiçados. As coisas são sempre assim. Nossa visão depende sempre do lado em que estamos.”
― Camilo Gomes Jr, Em memória

“There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.”
― Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“Wisdom is the thin conduit between two opposing viewpoints”
― Val Uchendu

“Our prism can become our prison”
― Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“A spiral seems more complicated and longer than a line. To see things from all viewpoints is an advantage”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“Truth” is a form of this honoring that we speak of and is a part of what may be known as integrity of the soul. As one may come to see, when there is any identity, there will always be a subjective viewpoint. “Truth,” in a sense, may only be experienced through this subjective viewpoint. And as we become nimble and honor each view, a more complete picture may be known of “truth”.
In a sense, we all operate in “truth,” but what is the truth that we are operating through? This is a question which can be gold to each of us.”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“The lens can act in many different ways and lenses can be stacked on top of each other in order to produce varying types of views. Take the fish-eye lens as an example. The glass on the lens is shaped in a certain way in order for the light to enter and produce a certain kind of distorted view.
We all are born with a lens, but usually we get to kind of start at ground zero in the process of beginning to understand, use, and interpret what this physical reality is. As our eyes open and we start to interface with this new reality, we form connections and synapses within our brain for interpretation and use of this new tool that we have. And much of this develops through the guidance or non-guidance of those caring for us. So much starts to become ingrained, and even in some cases we can borrow other people’s lenses in order to feel safe in the world. Sometimes the layers and layers can become quite complex. How many of you feel that anything you come in contact with gets to be translated through a menagerie of different thoughts, ideas, and histories before it fully gets seen?”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“Truth is a belief among others.”
― Paching Hoé Lambaiho, Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho