Perspective Quotes

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design - individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.