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Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
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There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
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Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
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Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
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I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
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The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
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What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
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