Perspective Quotes - Page 15

• Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Giving, Silence, Together

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.49, Macmillan

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• If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Ignorance, Self

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• What is healing, but a shift in perspectives?

  Mark Doty

  Healing

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• The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

  James Surowiecki

  Independent, People, Intelligence

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.41, Anchor

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• The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

  Paul Harvey

  Years, Add

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• The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb-- what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.

  Jim Cymbala

  Religious, Men, Innocent Man

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Humanity, Sanctity

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• Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Real, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 01, 2012

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• The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are as great an addition to the world as Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, and subtracting you from the cosmic equation would be just as great a loss. The most exquisite silk remains intact if you pull out a thread, but the snag will show.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mother, Loss, Soul

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• Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Cities, Silence

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• The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.

  Neil Postman

  Knowing, Priorities, Historical

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.70, Penguin

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• If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.

  Jeff Lowe

  Climbing, Views, Wife

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• Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Men, Perfect

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.188, GENERAL PRESS

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• Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

  George Herbert

  Thinking

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• For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

  William Wordsworth

  All Things, Seems

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.291

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• I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

  Hugh Hefner

  Past, Said Life, Luck

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• Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

  Cloris Leachman

  Judging, Gold, Sometimes

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• Every cloud engenders not a storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Clouds, Storm, Storm Clouds

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.660, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pessimist, Optimist, Conclusion

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Looks, Way

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Disability, Ifs

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• I never really thought of myself as a beefcake kind of guy.

  Ben Affleck

  Guy, Kind

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• Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

  Laozi

  Treats

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• Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mirrors, Views, Rear View

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• Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.

  Yoko Ono

  Optimistic, Thinking, Luxury

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