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Perspective Quotes

    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

       “If you understand something in only one way, then you don’t really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we’ve connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that’s what we mean by thinking!” ~ Scott Young, Zen Habits

        “It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.” ~ Tenzin Gyatso

          “When someone acts in a way that seems strange to you, rather than reacting in your usual way, such as, ‘I can’t believe they would do that,’ instead say something to yourself like ‘I see, that must be the way she sees things in the world. Very interesting.'” ~ Richard Carlson, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

            “We can’t change what life is, but we can change how we react to and interpret it.” ~ Jacob Held

              “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.” ~ Muhammad Ali

                “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” ~ Muhammad Ali