If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the...

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

And here’s the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty...

The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found...

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one’s own.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

I love objectivity when mine.

It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

It’s not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn.

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and ‘presentism’ is his original sin.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I’ve had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success....

You are not getting paid to hold cash anymore. I think if you look at it from that perspective you see an asset allocation switch going on, which is helping this rally.

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they’ve already been around into the distant future.

How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’?

use the difficulty” in your life?

Life is a repeated cycle of getting lost and then finding yourself again. There are many smaller cycles within that cycle where you get lost to a smaller degree and then remember yourself again. Sometimes...

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

I’m a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it’s never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

I feel from our perspective very strongly that supporting states that support state terrorism is a genuine problem for us,

It was as if he’d suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he made a conscious effort to simplify his life, with the goal...

As children’, wrote Alice Raikes (Mrs. Wilson Fox) in The Times, January 22, 1932, ‘we lived in Onslow Square and used to play in the garden behind the houses. Charles Dodgson used to stay with...

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a...

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

When you’re at peace, you embrace the eternity.When you’re confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city…you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were...

Leo Strauss’s discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

I don’t argue with fools; I educate.

The present state of the world is normal; it with the last (19th) century that with the abnormality.

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is...

I think it’s sort of a meaningless statement from their perspective and they’re trying to grab victory out of this by taking a posture that makes them look altruistic, … I also think they’re trying...

When life gets rough, never think you have failed… allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your...

[T]he more clamour we make about ‘the women’s point of view’, the more we rub it into people that the women’s point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is —...

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the...

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about...

From their perspective, it’s well within their rights to do it. They probably feel keeping the pressure on will make the process go faster.