65+ Perspective Quotes To Help You Reframe Your Mindset

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Our perception of the world is a reflection of our own inner state.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is complete, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focuses.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about today.

If you’re wondering what I mean by “miracle”, it’s simple: a miracle is a shift in perspective from fear to love.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.

Your reality is as you perceive it to be. So, it is true, that by altering our perception we can alter our reality.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The way we see the problem is the problem.

From a motivational perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.

Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.

Everything is relative to the observer.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

The mind is everything; what you think, you become. – Buddha

Our thoughts create our reality.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

If we don’t have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is your perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The greatest glory in living lies not in falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.

The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective.

It’s important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you’re wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is perspective, not the truth.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath, and actually look at something from a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less uncharitableness and angry feelings in the world.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

There is a strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson