2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

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

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]