Quotes about Perspective

All worrying will do is make you live through the misery twice.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie

I was doing pretty well—I'd published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.

You are practically powerless without gratitude—

realize I'm making it sound like we're all crazy, but that's because we kind of are.     Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else's beliefs. Until

Success is not about your circumstances, it's about who you're being.

When it comes to money, who and what you surround yourself with has a huge effect on how you perceive it and feel about it. Your environment helps define what you consider to be expensive or cheap, a wise or stupid purchase, and how much you'll allow yourself to make. In fact, here's a sobering exercise:

WHO DO I NEED TO BE FOR THIS SITUATION NOT TO BOTHER ME?

It's sort of like not being able to enjoy sitting on your front porch anymore because it totally reeks of something foul out there. You

Gratitude allows you to raise the energy you meet each situation with.

everyone is living in their own self-created illusion

Whenever anything excellent or mediocre or lame or annoying happens to you, meet it with the statement, "This is good because . . . " and fill in the blank. Once you make this a regular practice, you'll see how much easier it is to be in gratitude for much more than you realized.