2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Mindset matters: The sun just rises and sets…The awe, inspiration, romance, and renewal is within you.

There is a duality to the universe that spins everything and sometimes in people themselves.

When trying to ‘see the forest for the trees,’ you can’t see the forest when completely lost in the thick of it or when stuck in one particular tree.

Sometimes I’m tempted to deny things I haven’t seen with my own eyes. But I’m starting to realize that some people are endowed with the gift of exceptional sight—whether it be foresight, insight, vision, or experience. Some (like me) are privileged to behold the world’s wonder and beauty, while others are obliged to witness more than their fair share of ugliness.

The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told.

Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It was largely my interest in art that had destroyed any life in the world around me. I'd learned perspective, and about balance, and composition. It was as if I'd learned to redesign everything, to reshape it so I saw what OUGHT to be there, which of course is much inferior to what IS there. The dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education.

The only reason the world was a better place during your childhood is because you were a child.

Sometimes we need a change in perspective.