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Quotes about Perspective
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stop! Breathe deeply.
Begin bringing peace to the outer world
by regaining your own inner peace.
Choose love, choose gratitude,
choose forgiveness, choose peace.
Begin with your own inner peace.
Then use that inner peace
as a platform from which
to approach the outer world
with perspective, understanding, and patience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
