Quotes about Perspective

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.