Quotes about Perspective

Don't focus on age," she says with a touch of impatience. "It doesn't exist.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.