Perspective Quotes

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It is a form of violence, to not see a being for who he or she really is. You think, "Oh, that's my son." But… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can… — Baltasar Gracian
Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure… — Gregory Bateson
There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Things are only worth what you make them worth. — Moliere
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have… — Rachel Naomi Remen
The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread. — Rumi
Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is.… — Carl Jung
Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to… — Rajneesh
Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I… — Thomas Kinkade
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have… — William Ralph Inge
You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or… — Charles Kuralt
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly. — Sergio Pinto
Begin to see yourself in all other beings. — Deepak Chopra
Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. — Mark Haddon
I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing! — Joan Winmill Brown
In the context of eternity, time doesn't matter. — Wayne Dyer
In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees. — Wayne Dyer

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