Quotes about Perspective

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological.

It is inspiring to realize that in choosing our response to circumstance, we powerfully affect our circumstance. When we change one part of the chemical formula, we change the nature of the results. • •

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them.

You might work on your attitude—you could think more positively. You still wouldn't get to the right place, but perhaps you wouldn't care. Your attitude would be so positive, you'd be happy wherever you were.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. OBJECTIVE INTROSPECTION Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives onto other people.

Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.