Quotes about viewpoint

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.

If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.

The whole world reacts negatively to loss. What wrong has loss done? If you ask God if he has any profit or loss, then God would tell you, 'You are looking at it from an illusory viewpoint, you are seeing ‘relative’ and that is why you see everything as a profit or loss. I see through Real knowledge’.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...)What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?"Who says I even got one?"For the sake of argument, let's say you do."Who says I want an argument?

Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.

The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ occurs due to illusion, because everyone’s viewpoint is different.

We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us

We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the creator’s point of view

You will love and admire the One who is honest and blunt in his views, as long as you're not his subject of viewpoint!

But a fix, some magic cure to his “poor” status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don't even come close; but it's the perception that creates the most conflict every time.

Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

Some do magic, some are god. Most seems a lie, yet most is true. It all depends on the definitions of words within ones illusion of the world.

Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.

There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us.

lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.

The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.

So it's not all that important who people really are. Honestly, you could end up spending your life with almost anyone, and it wouldn't matter who - because the person they are to you is totally dependent on your view of them.

Ignoring the question is not the solution of problem,Same as forgetting the sorrow isn't happiness

It's not where you are from (basically it's not based upon tradition) that determines who you are. But, it's really based upon your personality on how people will view and treat you.

Pescatore marveled at the seascape. It gave him vertigo. The wind deployed cloud formations. The sun seared the Moroccan coastline. He had read a line once about "the lion-colored hills of Africa." Were they lion-colored? What color was a lion exactly?