Perspective Quotes - Page 7

And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

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.

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

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Our relation, all round, exists-it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it

The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Your perspectives change your realities.

People's realities are the result of their perceptions.

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world.

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.