2,376 Quotes About Perspective

It’s not what the day holds. Rather, it’s how we hold the day.

I don't get mad at a photograph because it wasn't taken today

As the number of oral cultures in the world has diminished, interest in them has grown, and one of the most intriguing questions is whether there might be such a thing as an ‘oral way of seeing’, a worldview common to oral peoples that might be different in some generalizable way from the worldview of people in cultures with writing.

You cannot control the chaos. You can control you.

You can spend your life grieving and in despair, wondering why it was you who was led down the path strewn with wonders and unknowns, or you can smile at life and be part of the miracle even if you don't understand the how's and why's.

If you had body of a fish, water would feel like air to you. The universe looks different from different bodies. Don't be so sure about what your particular body is showing you.

Some people would kill to instead be in the situation because of which some people have killed themselves.

Humor I think of as the outward sign of the ability to look at events and situations from more than one point of view. It is this gift that keeps us all from living in a perpetual rage.

If you're tired of spinning: anchor. If you're tired of being pulled into dark waters of suffering: stop biting honey-covered hooks.