20+ Perspective Quotes
Having perspective means being able to see the big picture in life and also being grateful for what you have. Here are 20+ inspiring perspective quotes and quotes about perspective in life.
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In the moment, certain events or worries in our lives feel so pressing and stressful and urgent, when in reality, very few things actually have a long term effect on our lives.
If you’re ever stressing over something that you’re not sure is important or not, ask yourself this: “Will this matter when you’re 90 years old?”
At the time, something like our grades in school or first heartbreak or unrequited love might feel soul-crushing and like the world is truly over and there’s no hope for the future, but that’s not true.
Take a step back. Imagine you’re 90 years old and sitting in a nursing home, or swinging on your front porch in rocking chairs with your sweetie. And maybe someone asks you at some point, “What are your biggest regrets in life?”
And as you look back on your life, you realize that the playground bullies or failed school exams or being fired from a job or getting dumped didn’t matter in the long run nearly as much as they did at the time.
If you have any regrets in life at that point, it will probably be over not following your heart, not telling people you love them often enough, or worrying too much about what other people think.
With enough time and distance, even the worst situations or “failures” get put into perspective.
Usually things in your life change after a long series of actions taken, rather than a single defining moment or event.
Always remember the big picture, and don’t lose sight of the forest because of the trees. 🙂
20+ Quotes About Perspective | Perspective Quotes
“Perspective and control are the two ingredients to time management.” – David Allen
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.” – Dalai Lama
“Every problem has a solution; it may sometimes just need another perspective.” – Katherine Russell
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
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“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.” – Howard Fast
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into perspective.” – Anton Chekhov
“People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they’re talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.” – Milan Kundera
“Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.” – Epictetus
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.” – Jalaluddin Rumi
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” – George Eliot
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
“You cannot change the past but you can always change your perspective.” – Freequill
“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.” – John Lubbock
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.” – Seamus Heaney
“We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another’s story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather that be told by them.” – Rebecca Solnit
“What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.” – Gary Zukav
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