Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
We missed the reality and the beauty of the forest because we were diverted by the ugliness of some of its trees.
Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.
I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?' asked Milo politely. 'You could,' said Alec, 'but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does.'
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
Think progress, not perfection.
Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.
How we interpret the events in our lives, our perspective, is the framework for our forthcoming response – whether there will even be one or whether we’ll just lie there and take it.
It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.