2,376 Quotes About Perspective

One may know a fact, see it oneself a hundred times, and still not get the impression one would if somebody else, a particular person, stands beside you and points out to you that very fact, but of course, in his own way, explains it to you in his own words, compels you to look at that fact with his own glance.

When I met her, she was going through a depression in life. She was not able to find her purpose in life. She would smile on the outside, but inside she was going through myriad difficulties. I don't know what it was about me that made her tell me about her thoughts. May be she felt that I could understand her. Writers and poets are expected to understand the perspectives of other people. And I was a writer and wanderer, never staying at one place for long.

Tumble tilted her head and crossed her eyes and decided that the humongous old place wasn't ugly. Just different. And she liked different.

Sometimes we just sit quietly and look at the world around us. One moment the world looks like it is. In the next moment, it's something completely different. There are things we clearly see but there are others that we never expect to appear. Suddenly, we realize that life is a matter of perspective. To effectively change ourselves, we must first change our perceptions. But no one has the right to dictate to us what to do, say or perceive.

If we never chance failure, we can never succeed.

We serve a God who is above and beyond creation--completely outside and "other"--and yet always present and near. As finite humans beings, we are tightly linked to linear chronology. Our God, however, who created time as we know it, though very real and present here, is not bound to our world or our timeline. . . he can access a perspective we lack.

Everything is a matter of perspective, she told them. Every story of what happened is just a version of what happened. Memory is subjective. Fact and truth are two different things.

What is adventure but inconvenience, properly regarded?

We live in one of roughly a trillion galaxies, with a Sun that is one of a septillion stars, on a single planet of countless. There are roughly seven billion humans on Earth, and we are each one. Perspective.