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Listen to what flows from your own mouth. Is it really the message you intend to give? Is it coming out the way you want it to? Is it being received the way you hope it will be?
— Akiroq Brost
If what you want doesn’t occupy space, time and energy in your life. If it doesn’t involve some frustration, exasperation, anger, sadness, or fear; then I dare say: It’s not real! It’s a fairy tale!
— Akiroq Brost
The next time, you say that you want something, watch your behavior. If you try to cop out of doing what it takes, if you hide behind excuses, if you just don’t want to do what it takes then perhaps reconsider: Is what you think you want actually something that you do in fact want?
— Akiroq Brost
If you want something, then you also want everything that comes with it. If you don’t want what comes with it; then guess what?! You really didn’t want it in the first place!
— Akiroq Brost
Life is a one shot deal, it is entirely up to you what you do with it. Me? I intend to make it the best I can, for as long as I can.
— Akiroq Brost
We make time for what's important and what's important should include what we love. One life worth living!
— Akiroq Brost
Your traits are not good or bad. What you do or don't do with them is what determines the result. Give your traits a useful role. Recognize and utilize all parts that make up you. Love and empower yourself as you are.
— Akiroq Brost
You can believe whatever you will, as long as you realize: it was your decision!
— Akiroq Brost
I believe we are the ones who hurt ourselves the most, by how we receive, by how we perceive.
— Akiroq Brost
Your thoughts are your truth, so make them good, be good, do good.
— Akiroq Brost
Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,
— Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Do what you feel is right and good. There will always be haters and naysayers..and their problem..is just that..their problem!
— Akiroq Brost
Coaching is the universal to connect with people, helping them to develop a new perspective, while expanding their inner beliefs and boundaries, equipping them to become the best version of themselves.
— Farshad Asl
I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission.
— Stevan V. Nikolic, Truth According to Michael
Live your life with a Burning Passion, with an Unquenchable Thirst for knowledge and wisdom.
— Akiroq Brost
The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of “rules.
— Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.
— Gavin Mills
Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
You’d have a list of notes of things that the player did and they’d want you to do it that way in practice. So they’d say, ‘He’s a guy who bites really hard on play action, so every time you see this play, do it that way. You want to give the quarterback a good look. You’re not reading it as you, you’re reading it as them. Play how they play and not how you play.’ Now, you’ve got to learn all your stuff, too, because you want to be on the team. So you’re watching film of you being him and you being you.”- Matt Chatham
— Michael Holley, Belichick and Brady: Two Men, the Patriots, and How They Revolutionized Football
Live with a pure and open heart and mind. Quiet all the rest. Our biggest obstacle was always ourselves. Thoughts that come from a place of love: are never wrong.
— Akiroq Brost
There is nothing like another's perspective to remind you that your way is not the right way
—  it is simply your way.
To be conscientious. You must first be conscious.
— Akiroq Brost
When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.
— Noel Gallagher
When you feel life is getting too cruel and insensitive…Look for a newspaper or poor streets…You will automatically gain perspective and start loving your Life.~Kritika Sharma
— Kritika  Sharma
Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find you're looking at a globular cluster—a million stars that, to us, presents as a single entity. On a less dramatic note there are triples, like Alpha Centauri, which up close turns out to be a double star and a red dwarf in close proximity. There's an indigenous tribe in Africa that tells of life coming from the second star in Alpha Centauri, the one no one can see without a high-powered observatory telescope. come to think of it, the Greeks, the Aboriginals, and the Plains Indians all lived continents apart and all, independently, looked at the same septuplet knot of the Pleiades and believed them to be seven young girls running away from something that threatened to hurt them.Make of it what you will.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Ma raised her eyes to the girl's face. Ma's eyes were patient, but the lines of strain were on her forehead. Ma fanned and fanned the air, and her piece of cardboard warned off the flies. "When you're young, Rosasharn, ever'thing that happens is a thing all by itself. It's a lonely thing. I know, i 'member, Rosasharn." Her mouth loved the name of her daughter. "You're gonna have a baby, Rosasharn, and that's somepin to you lonely and away. That's gonna hurt you, an' the hurt'll be lonely hurt, an' this here tent is alone in the worl', Rosasharn." She whipped the air for a moment to drive a buzzing blow fly on, and the big shining fly circled the tent twice and zoomed out into the blinding sunlight. And Ma went on, "They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of dyin', and bearin' is a piece of bearin', an' bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't so lonely any more. An' then a hurt don't hurt so bad, 'cause it ain't a lonely hurt no more, Rosasharn. I wisht I could tell you so you'd know, but I can't." And her voice was so soft, so full of love, that tears crowded into Rose of Sharon's eyes, and flowed over her eyes and blinded her.
— John Steinbeck
Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence?
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.
— Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
while it’s five in the morning here, it’s also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.
— Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
There was grief, too, that was certain, and she was grateful for it, since however loathed he'd been by the end, he'd formed her, at least in part - and what good ever came of self-loathing?
— Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent
I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine.
— Lynsey Addario, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is. And when you presume there’s just one right way to do things, of course the instructions begin and end exclusively with the rotisserie. But if you have to choose among an infinite number of ways to put it together then the relation of the machine to you, and the relation of the machine and you to the rest of the world, has to be considered, because the selection from many choices, the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That’s why you need the peace of mind.
— Robert M. Pirsig
She enjoys a fight for survival.
— Diane B. Saxton, Peregrine Island
There's something amazing about humor and laughter. It broadens your perspective.
— Hrishikesh Agnihotri
At the time, however, I didn't realize the extent of my granddaughter's sensitivity - or her loneliness. I thought only of myself. Of my own sensitivity and my own loneliness.
— Diane B. Saxton, Peregrine Island
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling..
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Dawn may not appear one to all. It depends on beholders how they look at life
—  whether they see the fading stars or the rising sun.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
— Walter Isaacson, American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
We're all traitors now.” “Ha!” the old lady said. “Only if we lose.
— James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys. The sun that gilds the summits will gild them more for him than for someone at the top who must endure the bright light; and the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
An old person knows what it’s like to be young, but a young person doesn’t know what it’s like to be old. There’s no substitute for life experience.
— Eleanor Brownn
Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you’re a Smurf.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough decades, and a body slowly twists into one great cramp, but there was a time once, where she had been sexy, and if not sexy, at least odd-looking enough to compel. Through this clear window she could see how good it all had been. She had no regrets. That's not true, Mathilde. The whisper in the ear. Oh, Christ, yes, there was one. Solitary, gleaming, a regret. It was that all her life she had said no. From the beginning she had let so few people in. That first night, his young face glowing up a hers in the black light, bodies beating the air around them, and inside there was that unexpected sharp recognition, oh, this. A sudden peace arriving for her. She who hadn't been at peace since she was so little. Out of nowhere, out of this surprising night with its shatters of lightning and the stormy black campus outside, with the heat and song and sex and animal fear inside. He had seen her and made the leap and swung through the crowd and taken her hand, this bright boy who was giving her a place to rest. He offered not only his whole laughing self, the past that build him and the warm beating body that moved her with its beauty and the future she felt compressed and waiting, but also the torch he carried before him in the dark, his understanding, dazzling, instant, that there was goodness at her core. With the gift came the bitter seed of regret, the unbridgeable gap between the Mathilde she was and the Mathilde he had seen her to be. A question, in the end, of vision. She wished she'd been the kind Mathilde, the good one, his idea of her. She would have looked smiling down at him, she would've heard beyond marry me to the world that spun behind the words. There would have been no pause, no hesitation. She would've laughed, touched his face for the first time, felt his warmth in the palm of her hand.'Yes,' she would've said. 'Sure.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Your eight is someone's infinity.
— NITYA MORE
This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The older they get, the better they get when they were younger
— Jim Bouton, Ball Four
Everyone's memories and feelings are subjective, and we're teach trapped in our own perspectives. But the difference between perspectives, collectively, create objectivity.
— Bao Shu, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 108
Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?
— Leonardo Donofrio, Old Country
No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon
— Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
Never let your perspective change the truth. The truth should always change your perspective.
— Stephen D. Matthews
I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon
— Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.
— Jim Bouton, Ball Four
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
— Robert J. Allison, Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies
If I'd defined success very narrowly, limiting it to peak, high-visibility experiences, I would have felt very unsuccessful and unhappy during those years. Life is just a lot better if you feel you're having 10 wins a day rather than a win every 10 years or so.
— Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.
— Jordan Ellenberg
The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.
— Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
— David Brooks
People treat the present moment as if it is just a stopping point on the way to some great goal that will happen in the future, and then they are surprised that the long day closes; they look back on their life and see that the things they let go by so unregarded, the small pleasures they dismissed so easily were in fact the true significance of their lives- all the time these things were the great and wonderful successes and purpose of their existence.
— Paul  Hoffman, The Beating of His Wings
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
— Harvey MacKay
In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?
— Hilary Grossman, Plan Bea
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortable
— W. Somerset Maugham
If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
— Shannon L. Alder
She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.
— David McGee
That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities
—  now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
— Matt      Chandler
Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
— Matt      Chandler
John F. Kennedy "is, in reality, a deeply serious man, reflective in his mental habits, historically minded, and given to seeing men and nations and events in the sobering context that history provides.As a human being, he is often humorous, easily bored by total routine but open to all fresh experiences, careless of the superficialities of life, warmly loyal to his friends, and oddly detached about himself. His most curious trait, in fact, is his way of discussing his most vital affairs with the dry humor and cool analytical remoteness that most people reserve for the affairs of others. – Joseph Alsop
— David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
— Alister E. McGrath, If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
— Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
— H.W. Brands
There are no memories which I wanted to blot out of my mind. Always, I have been rather objective in my point of view, able to stand off and observe myself and my surroundings in a rather impersonal fashion. The actual sight of my first casualty was not nearly as bad as I had imagined.
— James Carl Nelson, Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.
— Joe Pitkin, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012
We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.
— Madam Secretary
I do have to prioritize my end-of-the-world documents.
— Madam Secretary
The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.
— Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.
— Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.
— Rachel DiCarlo Currie
Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes.
— Matthew Donnelly
I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N
— Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so much less. But those specs could ravage Mars. They could destroy a moon. Those specks rule the ink.
— Pierce Brown, Red Rising
There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.
— Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.
— Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Think personally, act communally.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
He said that when you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress. Mark was right.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now.
— Girl Meets World
When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door. Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed.
— Liz Kessler, Read Me Like a Book
Our eyes captures thousands of beautiful pictures everyday.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view.
— Aaron Hartzler
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time.
— Betty Smith, Youth Takes Over
She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.
— David Halberstam, Firehouse
Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
If my mind was in your body going through the same circumstances. I would act differently, and likewise. Judging in nature is separation.
— Matthew Donnelly
The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.
— Anonymous
Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love.
— Andrea T. Goeglein, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.
— Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
The world can be seen from so many different angles. Each of us is born seeing the world in a different way, and each moment we live shapes our eyes and hearts differently.
— Greg Keyes, The Blackgod
If everything was perfect in your life won't it be a predictable one. Life is unpredictable chaotic and madness but that's what makes life interesting won't you agree?
— Joyce Guo
At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked.
— Last Man Standing
But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.
— Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites
There's always time for tea.
— Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night
There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
Worship is the launching pad for life.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you?
— Tony Curl
Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst
The look that one directs at things, both outward and inward, as an artist, is not the same as that with which one would regard the same as a man, but at once colder and more passionate. As a man, you might be well-disposed, patient, loving, positive, and have a wholly uncritical inclination to look upon everything as all right, but as an artist your daemon constrains you to "observe", to take note, lightning fast and with hurtful malice, of every detail that in the literary sense would be characteristic, distinctive, significant, opening insights, typifying the race, the social or the psychological mode, recording all as mercilessly as though you had no human relationship to the observed object whatever.
— Joseph Campbell
As I squeeze, he turns his head, and there is the tiniest, slimmest of moments when he sees me. I look into those wolf eyes, and even though they are empty, they're still alive. In that split second he is alive and looking at me. I am alive and looking at him. Then the moment is over, the trigger is pulled back, and the gun is empty.
— Carolyn Lee Adams, Ruthless
It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.
— Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.
— Evelyn Waugh
Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel.
— Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art
Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.
— Lamar Giles, Endangered
Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.
— Bohdi Sanders, Martial Arts Wisdom: Quotes, Maxims, and Stories for Martial Artists and Warriors
Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.
— Shannon L. Alder
The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.
— Thomas S. Kuhn
If you want to see your life, you have to see through the eyes of another.
— Mark Henshaw, The Snow Kimono
Every problem has a solution
—  it may sometimes just need another perspective.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
— Oscar Wilde
So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even get fired, it's actually a blessing because a better experience is waiting to happen. It's all about perspective.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure.
— Sarah Ockler, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids
THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERESHow instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are.
— Piet Hein
A cube or sphere has the characteristics of its form or shape, that is why one calls it a sphere or cube. Just as a cat is what we call a cat by its body type and physiology and its form delineates its interaction with its environment.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
If you ever wanna be motivated, go try and be homeless for a day and that will just light a fire under your butt like none other.
— Ronda Rousey
Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.
— Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale
The choice [is} a familiar one
—  stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective.
The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.
— Andrea Goeglein
Change your awareness and your perspective changes.
— Andrea Goeglein
We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.
— John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship
The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such.
— Andrea Goeglein
Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.
— Ron Lizzi, Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
Peace produces a proper perspective.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
As of this writing, I am twenty-five years old. I have been alive for 307 months. Nine of those months were pretty terrible. But 298 of those months have been very good. I have been happy. I have been very blessed. Who knows how many more months I have to live? But even if I died tomorrow, nine out of 307 seems like pretty good odds.
— Elizabeth  Smart, My Story
It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.
— R.C. Sproul
We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.
— William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace
She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was how Paunceforte would have seen it. But then she did not see it like that. She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel; the light of a butterfly’s wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.
— Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
Success is never a place but a perspective.
— Debasish Mridha
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.
— George Eliot
All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
Life makes fun of us and we should help it.
— David  Brandon, Tao of Survival: Spirituality in Social Care and Counselling
Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political persuasion because it is inclined to shun alarmism.
— William Krystol
Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.
— Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.
— Trevor Roper
And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad... Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
— Stephen Chbosky
Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet.
— Marilynne Robinson
...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Are you really a doctor?” I asked.“Some people say that.”“Why?”“Because I went to medical school.”“Did you not finish?” I asked hesitantly.“I finished.”“So…?”“So sometimes I work as a doctor.”“So doesn’t that make you a doctor?”“I guess, but I also worked as a baker, construction worker, and a bunch of other things. Either way I just prefer being known as Jack. I mean Dr. Baker Jack Hammer Jack, would be entertaining, but I think also a little weird.
— Michael Brent Jones, Jack Emerson
Truth is a kaleidoscope - it alters with perspective
— Sweety Shinde, Arjun: Without a Doubt
Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn’t be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn’t make me feel I’d done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I’m descended from an ape, I feel I’ve done remarkably well.
— Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun
Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.
— Brian A.  Jackson, Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History
Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.
— John Maerz, ENERGIZING SELF-TRUST: 7 Steps for Reclaiming Your Power
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it?
— V.S. Naipaul
Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God’s name is memorised by me. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, Dr.Mukherjee.
— Sambhav Ratnakar, The Covert Perspective
Looking at your day from a “golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.
— Elizabeth George
I say this to myself alone: when you feel crushed, those around you look broken. When you glow, darkness turns to black light. If you hurt, even the comforts you are offered wound you. As you prosper, your failures prove to be just the right thing, perfect.
— Bahauddin, The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of the Father of Rumi
Every silver spoon is tarnished.
— Beverley Sylvester
This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page. What do they gain? They gain this, simply nothing. Poets must assemble and present their work accordingly to how they see fit and should be careful of advice from other writers and editors. Sometimes there can be too much going on in the words that are meant to be given with the best of intentions.
— Abigail George, Feeding The Beasts
It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.
— Brian Spellman, If the mind fits, shrink it
No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities from the top of a mountain or from a plane, we feel it’s hopeless, but if we go down, there is a nice road running about fifty meters, we feel this is a nice road, and if the weather is fine and shining, we feel we can go on… Since the people in the community are cleaning up the river in my neighborhood, I join them when I have the time. A human can often be satisfied with the particulars. That’s what I like best these days.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Photography is all about the perspective!
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
The world you see, nature's greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and will remain with us as long as we ourselves remain. So, eager and upright, let us hasten with bold steps wherever circumstances take us, and let us journey through any countries whatever: there can be no place of exile within the world since nothing within the world is alien to men.
— Seneca
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Instead, I ask, After evolution was discovered, how did religion and society respond? After cities were electrified, how did daily life change? After the airplane could fly from one country to another, how did commerce or warfare change? After we walked on the Moon, how differently did we view Earth? My larger understanding of people, places and things derives primarily from stories surrounding questions such as those.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.
— Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World