Perspective Quotes

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You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.

Happiness Inspirational Perspective

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

Focus Faith Perspective Anxiety Suspense Fears

Poets are damned but see with the eyes of angels.

Poets are damned but see with the eyes of angels.

Poetry Beauty Hope Angels Eyes Vision Poets Sight Perspective

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and t

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

Reality Truth Perspective Fact

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.

Perspective

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

Reading History Perspective Emotion Myopia

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Knowledge Perspective

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very he

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

Thomas Traherne

Perspective

I think as men begin to see things that address them, they w

I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.

Life Basketball Perspective Judging Everyone Address Atlanta Criticizing Housewives Inclusive Iyanla Necessarily

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despo

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis -- especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate -- and foreboding -- horizon.

Prophecy Perspective Anxiety Compassion

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

Death Truth Attachment Perspective Death And Dying Etiquette Significance Self Censorship

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information b

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

Perspective

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. a

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. a

Henry David Thoreau

Perception Perspective Henry David Thoreau Question See

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from vari

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Perspective Open Mindedness Narrow Mind

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are lookin

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.

Life Success Happiness World Perspective

But what is ? What is ?The words and do not denote any reall

But what is ? What is ?The words and do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena. I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about . I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of .To a heard of rams, that ram the herdsman dries each evening into a special enclosure to feed, and that becomes twice as fat as the others, must seem to be a genius.

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Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Leonardo DaVinci

Perspective

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you a

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

Perspective

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand year

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational Perspective

I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does

I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Perspective