Quotations similar to PERSPECTIVE - POSITIVE THINKING, OPTIMISM
Also see PERSPECTIVE AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman
100% of reality is your perception of it. - Che Garman
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. - Carl Burns
A truly contented person enjoys the scenery along the detour. - Unknown
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. - Phillip Chesterfield
A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of the issue laughable. - Unknown
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Tuscany Proverb
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. - Robert H Schuller
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. - Publilius Syrus
Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now? - Richard Carlson
Begin to see yourself in all other beings. - Deepak Chopra
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Unknown
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. - Camille Pissarro
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. - Thomas Fuller
Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears. - Italian Proverb
Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first. - Brooks Atkinson
Don't take no for an answer. Take it for a question. Make the word 'no' mean, "Can't you be more creative than that?" - Steve Chandler
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. - Unknown
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Henry Miller
Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. - Mark Haddon
For every dark night, there's a brighter day - Tupac Shakur
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. - George Carlin
How we experience the outer world is determined by our inner world. We do not see the world as it actually is, but the way we perceive it to be. - Jim Hartness
I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. - Persian Proverb
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence
I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing! - Joan Winmill Brown
If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light. - Earl Campbell
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. - William Blake
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet
If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles. - Dr Wayne Dyer
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Dr Wayne Dyer
If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want. - Oscar Wilde
If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. - Mary Engelbreit
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. - The Houghton Line
In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. Find the fun and snap! The job's a game. - Mary Poppins
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. - Dereke Bruce
In the context of eternity, time doesn’t matter. - Dr Wayne Dyer
In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees. - Dr Wayne Dyer
It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse. - Unknown
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. - George Eliot
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John A Holmes
It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top. - Henry Ward Beecher
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau
Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. - Charles R Swindoll
Light is not recognized except through darkness. - Yiddish proverb
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen. - Epictetus
My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life. - Miles Davis
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: ‘What happens if I do nothing?’ - Robert Brault
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. - Doug Ivester
One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. - Henry Miller
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. - Albert Ellis
People seldom know what they want until you give them what they don't want. - Unknown
People storm imaginary Alps and die in the foothills cursing difficulties that do not exist. - E W Howe
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. - Alex Tan
Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. - Anthony J. D'angel
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. - Roger Miller
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to. - Unknown
Take each good day and relish each moment. Take each bad day and work to make it good. - Lisa Dado
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. - Morris Mandel
The next best thing to winning is losing. At least you've been in the race! - Unknown
The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgment. - Dr Wayne Dyer
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. - Ralph Waldo Trine
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Henry David Thoreau
The reverse side also has a reverse side. - Japanese Proverb
The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most. - Robert Anthony
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see. - Barry Neil Kaufman
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. - Tom Krause
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Einstein
There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them. - Neils Bohr
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. - David G Myers
There is no truth. There is only perception. - Gustave Flaubert.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. - Unknown
Things don't change, only the way you look at them. - Carlos Castenda
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. - Tom Robbins
To become mature is to recover that sense of seriousness which one had as a child at play. - Friedrich Nietzsche
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. - Claude Simon
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. - W Clement Stone
Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child. - Ruth Draper
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. - William A Ward
We don’t live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. - Gerald J Simmons
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality. - Robert Anthony
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach
What we call results are beginnings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you see depends on what you're looking for. - Unknown
When life's problems seem too much, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. - Ann Landers
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. - Benjamin Franklin
Whenever you aim for perfection, you find it's a moving target. - Geoffrey Fisher
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. - Herb Cohen
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy
You can’t have light without a dark to stick it in. - Arlo Guthrie
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, & the only way, it does not exist. - Nietzsche
Your interpretation of how things are colors what happens next. It alters your forward motion. - Larry James
