Perspective Quotes

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

There are other people who have it a lot worse

Treason is a matter of dates.

There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. That did not come to me until much later. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It's not one man's job. It's not one person's job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.

You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

History is written by the victors.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.