Positive perspective quotes are very helpful to open up your mind and turn life into a new beginning. Because your life is totally dependent on your perspective views.
If you have more positive perspective views, you can easily change your life. On the other hand, if you have so much negativity in your mind, you can’t upgrade your present status.
Here I have input 80 perspective quotes that can help you to get some ideas about life and other things.
Powerful perspective quotes
1. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ― C.G. Jung
2. “The moment you change your perception, is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.” ― Dr. Bruce H. Lipton
3. “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” ― William Blake
4. “To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.” ― Claude Simon
5. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ― Oprah Winfrey
6. “It’s all in the mind.” ― George Harrison
7. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” ― Epictetus
8. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
9. “It’s amazing that a thin film of plastic wrap is enough to protect food against the aggression of hungry marauders. Or maybe the plastic cover doesn’t act as a shield, but rather the starving mob is staved off by one simple word: Leftovers.” ― Jarod Kintz
10. “Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.” ― Colin Powell
11. “Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
12. “The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
13. “Your reality is as you perceive it to be. So, it is true, that by altering this perception we can alter our reality. ― William Constantine
14. “Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.” ― Muhammad Ali
15. “We must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world. ― Stephen R. Covey
Awesome perspective quotes
16. “There are no facts, only interpretations.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
17. “The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” ― Al Neuharth
18. “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ― Stephen R. Covey
19. “What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.” ― Gary Zukav
20. “Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.” ― Colin Powell
21. “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
22. “No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” ― Ansel Adams
23. “Never write about a place until you’re away from it, because that gives you perspective.” ― Ernest Hemingway
24. “Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.” ― Jose Saramago, The Double
25. “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
26. “One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.” ― Anne Rice, Pandora
27. “You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
28. “Perspective is the way we see things when we look at them from a certain distance and it allows us to appreciate their value.” ― Rafael E. Pino
29. “Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
Beautiful perspective quotes
31. “Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.” ― Irving Berlin
32. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” ― Marcus Aurelius
33. “It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.” ― Albert Einstein
34. “While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” ― Dorothea Lange
35. “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.” ― Aaron Rose
36. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
37. “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” ― Camille Pissarro
38. “The best things in life aren’t things.” ― Art Buchwald
39. “The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.” ― Oscar Wilde
40. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.” ― Wayne Dyer
41. “And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
42. “…What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.” ― Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
43. “It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” ― George Eliot
44. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ― Lao Tzu
45. “What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.” ― Martha Graham
46. “Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.” ― Georges Braque
47. “If we don’t have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective.” ― Wayne Thiebaud
48. “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.” ― George Carlin
49. “Distance lends enchantment to the view.” ― Mark Twain
50. “Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” ― Hans Margolius
Helpful perspective quotes
51. “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” ― Tim Burton
52. “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say It’s as plain as the nose on your face. But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?” ― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
53. “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into perspective.” ― Anton Chekhov
54. “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” ― William Blake
55. “Songs are as sad as the listener.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
56. “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
57. “Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.” ― George Carlin
58. “It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
59. “When it seems like the sky is about to collapse, relax, that’s just the roof caving in.” ― Jarod Kintz
60. “Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art, an individual masterpiece.” ― Denis Waitley
61. “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
62. “Electricity is really just organized lighting” ― George Carlin
63. “The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” ― Erwin Schrodinger
64. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” ― Albert Einstein
65. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Perspective quotes to remember
66. “Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.” ― Corrie Ten Boom
67. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust
68. “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” ― Steven Wright
70. “Your reality is as you perceive it to be. So, it is true, that by altering this perception we can alter our reality.” ― William Constantine
71. “What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
72. “In this treacherous world, nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color of the crystal thr ough which one sees it.” ― Pedro Calderon de la Barca
73. “Humans see what they want to see.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
74. I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” ― John Constable
75. “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” ― John Lubbock
76. “Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.” ― Dan Brown
77. “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.” ― William Blake
78. “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
79. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” ― J.M. Barrie
80. “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
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