Quotes about Perspective

Son, you are 1500 miles from home, and you don't feel any different, do you? I knew you wouldn't, because you took with you the one thing that is the cause of all your trouble, that is, yourself. There is nothing wrong with either your body or your mind. It is not the situations you have met that have thrown you; it is what you think of these situations. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." When you realize that, son, come home, for you will be cured.

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.

Principle 9 - Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers, And I become the other dreamers.

And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier. If no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person, My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.