2,376 Quotes About Perspective

If we wish to identify the truly great things in life, we can identify them by the fact that no matter how much we are exposed to them or how often we’re privileged to engage them, they remain great despite what our perception of them might do to them.

I've been up in the sky flying on many occasions in a Cessna 152, and even flew through a cloud before. Pluffy is a good word for how clouds look from a distance, but up close you realize it is just fog up high and out of reach. Perspective sometimes makes all the difference.

As we stare into the icon, the world we are looking into ishn't shrinking or vanishing. Rather, it is expanding and growing. I like to call this The Wardrobe Effect, borrowed from the scene in C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where the children move into and through a small space (the Wardrobe) to emerge into this vast expansive space (Narnia). An icon is trying to create, via reverse perspective, this same effect upon us. Heaven is more real and larger than this world.

Stop seeing everything in binary. The world is beyond yes or no, and right or wrong.

I can get on my knees and pray all day, but until my attitude is on its knees nothing will be different once I’m back on my feet.

Today is a great day to reconnect with who you are. Not the You that everyone else convinced you to be... but the real YOU. Stop playing small for other people's comfort. Reconnect with the power you have to overcome adversity and to shape your life. It's a new day... and ti's time for your BADDASSS self to rise and shine!

Question all “your” ideas and ideologies - about everything. You’d be wise to look at a house from every perspective before you choose to live in it.

Our thoughts, perspective and attitude significantly impact, and ultimately create our reality.

This is the simple reality: Others have had it harder than me. Many, many others. From that darkness comes realism. From that realism comes gratitude. From gratitude comes perspective. A healthy sense of perspective is an antidote to outrage. It is an antidote to self-pity, despair, and weakness.