Rachel Baran

30 Quotes On Perspective That Will Challenge You To Look At The World Through A Difference Lens

Perspective 
Becca Martin
July 27, 2016
“It’s not about the light — but how dark it makes you depending on where you stand.”
— Ocean Vuong, Eurydice
Tagged: Light, Darkness, Perspective, Philosophy, Deep Thoughts, Poetry
“Every being in this world makes an impact on at least one person they encounter during their lifetime. You can change the course of someone’s life by just a kind word, a hateful one, or even by simply choosing not to say anything at all. Every choice you make has the potential to create a ripple effect, trickling into and affecting the lives of others.”
— L.B. Simmons, The Resurrection Of Aubrey Miller
Tagged: Life, Perspective, Deep Thoughts, The Universe, kindness, Philosophy
“He’s a beautiful person. He always tells me: ‘We’ve got to find a way to win by losing.’ In the eyes of society, we’ve lost already. Everyone in here is a loser. We can either be angry about it, or we can keep trying to grow.”
— Anonymous, Humans of New York - Inmate tories
Tagged: Crime, Perspective, perseverance, Moving Forward, Life, Spilled Ink, Winning, Losing, Humans of New York, Growing Pains, Self Improvement
“You will still be art even when he stops admiring.”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: Art, Inspirational, Self love, strength, Perspective
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Perspective, Happiness, Optimism, Wisdom, Simplicity, Minimalism
“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes – even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes – can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Tragedy, Attitude, Perspective, Darkness, Pain, Suffering, Fear
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Right, Wrong, Truth, Perception, Perspective
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Tagged: Idealism, Perspective, Optimism, Reality, clever
“Today is going to be as good or as bad as I make it.”
— Frieda Hughes, Frieda Hughes: ‘I felt my parents were stolen’
Tagged: Positivity, Perspective, Good Morning
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Love, Being In Love, Relationships, Perspective, Reality
“A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.”
— Henry Flynt, Aesthetics of Eerieness
Tagged: Conceptual Art, Perspective, Open Mindedness, Philosophy
“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
Tagged: Curiosity, Knowledge, Intelligence, Perspective
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Tagged: Perspective, Perceptions, Self-awareness
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
— Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans! (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)
Tagged: Relationships, Psychology, Judgmental, Perspective
“We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
— Anatole France, The Gods Will Have Blood (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Tagged: Perspective, Spilled Ink, God
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
— Ellen Degeneres, Saving Civility
Tagged: Perspective
“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding
Tagged: Success, Failure, Perspective
“No job is beneath you.

You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

If you can't (or won't) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: perseverance, Perspective, Gratitude, Working Hard
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Perspective, Inspirational, Life, Happiness, travel
“All the people who tell the truth are in the last rows.”
— Bill Cunningham, Bill Cunningham Thought Every New Yorker Was Worth Photographing
Tagged: Social Class, Fashion, Perspective, Vanity
“Nothing is black and white. There may be day and night, but not without the dawn and the dusk.”
— Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut
Tagged: Perspective, silver lining
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Regret, Time, Life, Perspective
“If something you desire is not happening, you are not emotionally or mentally ready for it yet. Make your mental adjustment in the now, and the reality will follow.”
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life (The Principles of Enlightenment) (Volume 1)
Tagged: Perspective, Being Ready, Reality, Change
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
Tagged: Facts, Perspective, Reality, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Tagged: Gratefulness, Perspective, Adversity
“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”
— Donald Trump, via Forbes.com
Tagged: Investment, Perspective
“In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish.”
— Donald Trump, via twitter.com
Tagged: Perspective, Life
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: humanity, Point of View, Perspective
“Being happy is a very personal thing—and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.”
— Esther And Jerry Hicks, The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships
Tagged: Happiness, Inspirational, Perspective
“I’m alive. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.”
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Tagged: Life, alive, pay attention, Perspective