You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
—Harper Lee (1926–2016) American Novelist
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chinese Statesman
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
—Martha Washington (1731–1802) American First Lady
Man’s mind stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
—George Sand (1804–76) French Novelist, Dramatist
Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it can’t even escape from being found by its like. Even when it’s just like in one thing, because even them two with the same like was different.
—William Faulkner (1897–1962) American Novelist
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
With spiritual work, the terms ‘is’ or ‘are’ become progressively replaced by the term ‘seems to’, which is due to the increasing realization of the degree to which perception is the mask that hinders truth.
—David R. Hawkins (1927–2012) American Physician, Author
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
Stick with your own perception of yourself—living in your own world—and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.
—John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
—Unknown
Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is…The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.
—Dan Millman (b.1946) American Children’s Books Writer, Sportsperson
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
—Vance Palmer (1885–1959) Australian Writer, Critic
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
—Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933) American Clergyman, Civic Reformer
All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
—Hans Christian Andersen (1805–75) Danish Author, Poet, Short Story Writer
See simplicity in the complicated.
Achieve greatness in little things.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread.
—Arabic Proverb
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail.
—Abraham Maslow (1908–70) American Psychologist, Academic, Humanist
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities—always see them, for they’re always there.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness that created it.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
—Andre Breton (1896–1966) French Poet, Essayist, Critic
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it.
—Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
Light travels faster than sound. That’s why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.
—Unknown
If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) Irish Novelist, Short-story Writer
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