Perspective Quotes

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Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures:… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more… — Bertolt Brecht
We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one… — Bo Lozoff
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. — Leigh Hunt
Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss… — Barbara Johnson
Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why… — Doris Lessing
To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a… — Nancy Mairs
An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament,… — Zhuangzi
Hey mister, where you goin' in such a hurry? Don't you think it's time you realize There's a whole lot more to life than work… — Mac Davis
When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long." — Bernard Baruch
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a… — Dorothea Lange
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money,… — Marcus Aurelius
It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it. — Celia Thaxter
Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful. — Robert Louis Stevenson
We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to… — Sylvia Boorstein
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it… — Annie Dillard
Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the… — John G. Bennett
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. — Neale Donald Walsch

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